It isn't the tuner they want. It's all the knobs. They love the

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In Reply to: Vintage worth restoring? posted by jedrider on February 22, 2022 at 09:26:46:

Knobs, switches, buttons and dials.

I asked a receiver lover who has no radio he likes. Said it is all about the K,s, b & d that make him prefer the receiver to the integrated amp.

Restoring them is a process of replacing the electrolytic caps, known to fail/noisy transistors, variable resistors, lamps or LEDs, cleaning and resetting to factory specs. A big receiver will have 100 caps and need $100+ bucks in parts which are more difficult to find but lots of choices other there. Supply chain issues. Then the time needed to install all the parts and you have 4-12 hours in a rebuild and depending on the unit a bump in price of a couple hundred to a couple thousand.

Selecting what to rebuild and doing a good job can make some coin.

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Topic - Vintage worth restoring? - jedrider 09:26:46 02/22/22 (7)

It isn't the tuner they want. It's all the knobs. They love the - kff 10:07:03 02/24/22 (0)

currently most boomer-era hifi faves are fetching insane sums of money - mhardy6647 14:52:24 02/22/22 (1)

RE: currently most boomer-era hifi faves are fetching insane sums of money - Crazy Dave 10:58:36 02/25/22 (0)

Found a Radio station worth listening to?? - bare 13:10:35 02/22/22 (2)

Yep, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it - jedrider 08:01:02 02/24/22 (0)

RE: Yep, never lost them - jaynemo 11:47:01 02/23/22 (0)

RE: Vintage worth restoring? - BillH 11:42:18 02/22/22 (0)

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It isn't the tuner they want. It's all the knobs. They love the - kff 10:07:03 02/24/22 (0)

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