Question of curiosity

[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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[Merle]

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?

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

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

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[Merle]

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

[Hcompton79]

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.