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Later, Zenlogic.
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19th Jul 10
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27th Jun 10 zenlogic
The Zenith H503Y Radio.
Well, I got the radio from my dads – It was in surprisingly good shape. Just real dirty and dusty. We plugged it in and it fired right up, Not a problem. All the tubes are good, Just no battery. I saw a site that sells the batteries for this model with the right connections and a charger. I will be getting one, I will let ya’know how that goes.
Okay so I cleaned it all up with Murphys Oil Soap, then took the guts out to tighten up the string on the tuning wheel. I did that by cutting about half the stretched out spring off and then reattaching the string. Adjusted the tuning for “0” and then put it all back together again. The out side is covered in some kind of cloth and then was shellacked. Like I said it was in real good shape still, so all I did was get some good shoe polish, black, and did every part that was black – black and used clear polish on the red leather parts and a kiwi quick shine sponge on the rest, then took my shoe brush to it and got it to a high shine. As you see in the pic’s, it looks good, real good.
For a radio that is 60 some years old – well, lets say this – They sure don’t make them like that anymore! This is great, while I was cleaning it and listing to it afterwords, I got a real jolt of nostalgia, wow, I felt like I was a kid again sneaking into dads room and listing to the radio. Cool as hell.
If you go over to my you tube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/edwyrd
I have a vid about it and you can hear it working. So enjoy.
Here are the schematics for the radio, in bmp format:
Later, Zenlogic.
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27th May 10 zenlogic
Sheila has a Personal blog, No – really she does and she just made a new post! The first in a long time, so why don’t ya head over there and give it a quick read. Just click the link below.
My Life as Wife and Accountant
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About the Ringmaster
Edward Emmett Karn, Jr.
AKA: Zenlogic, johnlogic, freebooter, zxc
I n the almost 50 years I have been on this earth I have done many things, been many places and met many people, good and bad......In life, so far, I have learned that nobody knows anything for sure, that there is no sense in sweat'in the small shit, I know that I will not panic in a life or death situation, that I will fight to live, I know this from experience. That if you have no problems, you are probably dead and If you let the herd manage your life you will never be happy.
In the immortal words of Popeye, I 'yams whats I ams, and dats all that I 'yams. Thank you.
I shall impersonate a man. His name is Alonso Quijana, a country squire no longer young. Being retired, he has much time for books. He studies them from morn till night and often through the night and morn again, and all he reads oppresses him; fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man. He ponders the problem of how to make better a world where evil brings profit and virtue none at all; where fraud and deceit are mingled with truth and sincerity. He broods and broods and broods and broods and finally his brains dry up. He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity and conceives the strangest project ever imagined - -to become a knight-errant, and sally forth into the world in search of adventures; to mount a crusade; to raise up the weak and those in need. No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight known as D on Quixote de La Mancha.
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