Another book on vintage radio is now available, this book is Music Master radio , a small book on this manufacturer from 1932 to the 60's .

Convict Blood is also available , although we do not have many copies !

Music Master is out for $25 posted.
Convict Blood is out for $68.40 posted.

New book ............Airzone radio in the 20th century !

This book will be released before the end of this month.


Most of our other previous books are available on request.

Titles & pricing

Radio Nights ............$113.40 posted.
Stc radio 1930 to 1942 ......$35 posted.
Hits and Memories of radio.$ 45 posted.
Australian radio 1928 to 1972 - parts 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 ... parts 1 / 2 / 3 $50 posted each, part 4 $72 posted.
Awa & Bandmaster 1930 to 1942 $45 posted.
Radios of the Nation 3 book set $288.40 posted.

Is there any thing on Reliance Sky Raider?

Is there a book for colour blind dummies about restoring old radios. I am colour blind and the markings on resistors confuse me.

26% of the male population is colour blind in some way. I did train as a textile dyer & did Pilot training. So I know I am not. Colour blindness was just as big an issue there as in driving & flying.

There are charts with the band colours on them, have you got one of those and ascertained which part of the spectrum is the issue. You may be able to cross reference the resistances to one of those charts? I do appreciate that some who make the resistors use shades on the bands that are offshade by a large margin. So you then reach for the meter.

Marc

This is the colour blindness test I did when I got my electrician's licence. I also did it as a prerequisite for enrolment at tech when I started my trade. The campus quack had a hardback book with these discs on each page. Some are harder to guess than others, though that is how they tell which colours some people can't see well.

Whilst flexible cords made in the last 30 years or so will have conductors of brown, blue and green/yellow, which a majority of colour-blind people can still tell apart, hard wiring in buildings never caught up to this standard and are still made in red, black and green/yellow. Most colour blind people cannot tell red and green apart. Even if the colours for hard wiring were changed in the standards, it would take a good 150 years for the last of the current colour scheme to be re-wired. Hell, there's still tens of thousands of industrial and commercial buildings wired with the old three-phase colour scheme of red, yellow, dark blue for the active conductors, black for neutral and green for earth and some of that is still VIR in split seam or screwed metal conduits.

I am also glad that I wasn't colour blind - it would have been nigh on impossible to start my time in the electrical trade with issues and I didn't really want to do anything else.

I should add that traffic signals, including the LED types that have been around for about fifteen years now, have some blue spectrum on the green lamps so drivers can better tell red from green at a distance.

Getting back to the topic, I can recommend some of the books above, which I have. From a historical viewpoint, the information within is excellent.