[78-L] A blast from the past

[David Lennick]

Something I never expected to see in working order..an RE-45 (Radio + Electrola) that sat unused in my parents' basement for overf 50 years.

http://www.radiolaguy.com/Showcase/RCA%20RE-45.htm

It doesn't look that clean but it plays beautifully! A fellow offered to get it running in return for another old radio I didn't have room for and didn't care about all that much, and this afternoon he brought it over to the house and set it up. Capacitors and tubes replaced where necessary, the whole thing cleaned up inside and out, the missing thumbscrew that holds the needles was replaced, and I'm amazed at the sound this thing produces, both on radio (AM only) and on records. Original speaker, too. Rather surrealistic to hear news reports about the rioting in Toronto on an 81-year-old radio. (Yeah, we got rioting..and we had an earthquake the other day..wanna make something of it?)

 

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