31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
12:44 p.m.
Most things under ten years old can't be repaired because they have
weird custom chips. I guess the corporations did an excellent job
convincing people that a machine should die, and be replaced,
impossible to repair. 90V batteries? How big are they? How big is the
radio?
Yes, _you'd_ fix it. I'd fix it, and I guess
other people here would do
the same. But the general public seem to think that anything over 3
years
old can't be repaired..
One of the radios I use here from time to time is a 1950's Vidor
portable
radio with the FM band. It's valved. I got it
second hand and it needed
very little work to get it going again - mostly cleaning contacts and
valveholders. I think all the valves are original as well. I've made a
little mains PSU for it as 90V batteries are difficult to find
nowadays.
And I don't consider a set of that age that still works to be unusual
at all.
-tony
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