Tubes & Patience: A Kitchen Radio Comes Back
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- A radio in a shoebox
- Capacitors and why they fail
- Imelda's dim-bulb tester
- It plays
Show notes
A listener mailed us a kitchen radio in a shoebox. Our guest Imelda Thornquist, who restores radios in a converted garage, walks us through bringing it back slowly and safely.
We talk about the dim-bulb tester, a simple series lamp that limits current the first time an old set is powered up, and why patience is the most important tool on the bench.