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Dan Walker
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07-05-2017, 09:35 PM
I bought this Northern Electric tombstone radio about three weeks ago and now it is all finished.
   I found that the transformer had a shorted secondary, so I used a new one I had bought for my rogers 10-12 .
 then I found  that the choke somehow got a hole in it and about 20 wires were broke. I got another one from a good friend of mine  and after all that work, the radio plays very well.
 It does not have a dial but rather a backlighted dial that rotates as you turn the knob. For a different band, a different color rotates around
  The cabinet  took the regular amount of work , stripping ,staining and toning.
Now it is a keeper.
 Dan in Calgary.  PS here is a link to the interview that I gave to the CBC .
It is about 5 minutes long.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/programs/homestretch/people-who-fix-things-old-radios-1.4192174


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07-05-2017, 10:03 PM
Beautiful Radio Dan, and your interview was really good. Thanks for posting it.
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07-05-2017, 10:05 PM
Very nice looking piece, Dan.
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07-06-2017, 10:24 AM
I love it...
Super job on the cabinet... A++

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07-06-2017, 10:59 AM
That's a beauty. I love the dial, very classy.
Greg

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