ANCIENT RADIO repair

They sure don’t build them like that anymore. [J.W. Koebel] managed to take this 1934 Simplex model P radio and bring it back to life.

So where do you start with a repair job like this one? Being a ham radio man he has a good idea of what he’s doing, and started by replacing the AC capacitor with one which will offer quality noise filtering. He tried to make fixes throughout that would improve functionality and declutter the wire mess. This led him to find a snapped solder connection on the volume knob. next he evaluated out the speaker and found that the primary transformer needed replacing. After as replacing the A67 converter (we’ve got no idea what that is) he swapped out the rest of the original capacitors, many of the resistors, and fixed the mechanical problems with the tuning dial. The result is a working radio that looks fantastic!

[via Reddit]