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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Repaired: 1960 Hornyphon Attache 61 German Antique Radio
I’ve been working on this Hornyphon Attache 61 model W 360 A radio for a customer this month. He brought the radio over from his mother’s estate in the 1970s and it’s been sitting ever since, and came to me to … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Radios and Tubes, Vintage
Tagged antique radio, Attache 61, Hornyphon, MW, repair, restoration, tube radio, UKW, vacuum tube, W 360 A
3 Comments
YAMR [Yet Another Monitor Repair] ViewSonic VP191b
A little while ago, I picked up a set of seven LCD monitors in various states of not working to work on repairing and maybe eventually reselling. The first one was quite easy – it just needed a wire reconnected … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Photos, Projects
Tagged capacitor replacement, fried electronics, LCD, Monitor, power supply, project, projects, repair, salvage, Viewsonic, VP191b
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1953 Hallicrafters 8R40 Repair
Back in May, I dug up a Hallicrafters 8R40 from one of Seattle’s local electronics recyclers, 3R Technologies. It looked like it had been stored very well, had all the tubes, the dial strings intact, no rust to speak of and not … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Projects, Radios and Tubes, Vintage
Tagged 8R40, antique radio, communications receiver, Hallicrafters, ham radio, old radio, radio, repair, restoration, shortwave, vacuum tube, vintage radio
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Friday Brain Dump [Random Thoughts]
A recent random assortment of ideas: It’s easy to get media content from a computer to a television, but it’s difficult to get any kind of external media back into a computer. I have a fairly involved computer setup at … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Ideas, Projects, Technology
Tagged 8R40, amplifier, computer, Dayton Audio, DisplayPort, DTA-2, g1, g2, Hallicrafters, HDMI, HDTV, HTC, Multimedia, Nokia, radio, t-mobile, Tripath, VGA capture
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Project Idea: 1920s Style Seashell Horn Speaker
Browsing around the Antique Radio forums, I ran into inspiration for a new project I intend to work on. My project plate is pretty full in October, but I’ll probably get to it before the end of the year. The … Continue reading →