"Fleetie" wrote

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No, I haven't fried a thing of beauty or value. 10 or 15 quid
seems to be about the going rate for them. I paid 10 plus a
fiver postage.


OK, it ain't always about the bloody money....


I think I have a valve supplier sorted, and they
seem to be less than 3 quid each, and I'm sure the audio output
valve is fine, so that's only 3 to replace, and I reckon only
one or two of them will actually need replacing.

I was a little disappointed to find it uses a PCB. I was hoping for
a chassis-based radio that I could kinda strip down to the chassis,
polish up, and have around as a cool valve radio curio that worked,
but the PCB kinda detracts from the look of the thing, really. But I'm
prepared to at least get a new set of valves and poke around some more
for dead-looking resistors.

We'll see what develops.



That's the ticket! :-)

(I'm not normally given to excessive anthropomorphism, but I do see these
little critters as sometimes needing a helping hand, rather than just
chucking them out. The one you've got has survived 40 years or so
already.....!!)

These UK links might be interesting/useful:

http://www.radiovs.co.uk/ (specifically
http://www.radiovs.co.uk/philips_b2g25u.htm)

http://www.radiobygones.co.uk

http://www.vintage-radio.com/index.shtml

http://www.bvws.org.uk/


Let us know how you get on with it.