Hi, I'm Bruce, I have acquired an old itch to play with old radios, the kind built in the early 30s and 20s that's when radio technology was exploding and they were trying to figure out a lot of stuff. In the 60s I was digging these radios out of the trash behind radio repair shops and taking them home to fix them. On the way home from school anice radio shop man would let me in the back door and would explain about vacuum tubes, resister and capacitors, coils and things. I became fascinated. Later I became educated in the electronic world of vacuum tube technology. In the late 70s I lost interest in electronics and now I have retired form a 50 year career in the HVAC industry.
Recently I have purchased 5 radios, all between 1930-1933. I have restored 2 of them to a wonderful working condition and Wow it was fun. I am getting into my third ( a 1590 Silvertone) it has an open audio transformer that I am rewinding. So I thought that since my vacuum tube knowledge has been on the shelf for 45 years and become extremely dusty it would be fun to get acquainted with active folks working with audio, transformers and the like. Antique radio forums are wonderful but they don't seem to always focus on raw audio issues and I can see this forum does and so many new age ways of dealing with vacuum tubes. Hope this wasn't too much but it's the only way to explain me and what I like. So thanks for letting me in, Bruce
Recently I have purchased 5 radios, all between 1930-1933. I have restored 2 of them to a wonderful working condition and Wow it was fun. I am getting into my third ( a 1590 Silvertone) it has an open audio transformer that I am rewinding. So I thought that since my vacuum tube knowledge has been on the shelf for 45 years and become extremely dusty it would be fun to get acquainted with active folks working with audio, transformers and the like. Antique radio forums are wonderful but they don't seem to always focus on raw audio issues and I can see this forum does and so many new age ways of dealing with vacuum tubes. Hope this wasn't too much but it's the only way to explain me and what I like. So thanks for letting me in, Bruce
Welcome to the forum, Bruce.
I bet the people in the tubes forum will welcome you with open arms. 🙂
Hugo
I bet the people in the tubes forum will welcome you with open arms. 🙂
Hugo