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Your expierience in $$ for DIY restoration? Newbie w/41-608
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06-01-2011, 11:33 AM
OK, there will be a lot of help available to you here to get your set up and running again. There is tons of stuff on this forum you need to look at, dealing with replacing all the capacitors, using a variac, etc... But that looks like a nice clean set, so you shouldn't have to deal with the nightmares of rodent infestation, etc... that we often find in these old sets.

If you haven't worked much with electical devices, please be especially aware that you should not touch anything when power is applied to the set. Never ever! We do want to hear from you again.

Fixing old radios is a wonderful hobby, and a great way to starve to death as a profession nowadays. Others might beg to differ.
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