Question of curiosity

https://www.milsurps.com/I collect Hot Wheels & Pin Ball Machines

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Originally Posted by Hcompton79

In addition to old weird and military rifles and accoutrements, I also collect old tube radios, and to be honest that's where I have more interesting stuff. Most of my milsurps are common, but nonetheless fun to shoot. Sometimes the two hobbies intersect, like with this 1942 Zenith Portable Shortwave radio, It has a B-17 on the speaker cloth and these were reportedly very popular with servicemen because they could receive shortwave transmissions from the States.

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so where do you find tubes, etc, to repair these old timers? :dunno:

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Originally Posted by Merle

so where do you find tubes, etc, to repair these old timers? :dunno:

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Originally Posted by JimF4M1s

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thanks for the reply - one of my friends is just getting started, and I'll pass these along to him

I too raced slots for a while still have my Ruskit Chaparral 2D stashed away probably about the same time frame as as you JimF41 just when the angle winders were coming in I remember winning a race over 15 laps with it and won $1 I used MooToo traction goo on the tyres for extra grip to the slicks., I have a collection of R/C planes hung up in the shed plus a control line Spitfire a bit banged up after my wifes attempt to fly it (a 3 second one at that that despite my pleas not to try it!) I repaired it though also one brand new Challenger Hi-Wing with 2 hours air time engined with an O/S Max L/A another venture short lived lost interest to many tossers at that club.

Most people assume that tubes are the #1 thing to go bad in these radios. It's actually not, 70+ year old capacitors are the most failure prone components in any radio. Tubes are simply vacuum sealed pieces of metal and the number produced far exceeds the current demands.

And they are also available.

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