Interesting find

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 04/19/2018 at 19:59 • Filed to: None

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Old radio. It sorta works - power it on and it takes a few minutes to warm up and then gives off a nice, mellow hum that you can only get from vacuum tubes. Some tubes may be bad, but it didn’t fire off a bunch of sparks and emit weird odors when powered up, so it has the potential to be revived.

lone_liberal > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2018 at 20:09

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Nice! And it even has the CONELRAD markings in case of emergency. Hey, you never know!

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2018 at 20:14

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That’s amazing! How do you find so much cool stuff?

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2018 at 20:18

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The filters (resistors) are bad causing the hum. In that era they were made from oil soaked paper the oil has dried up.

Pearson Hurst > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2018 at 20:22

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Very cool! I have a tube radio in my office that I replaced the capacitors in myself. Easy job, and will definitely get rid of the hum. Nothing sounds quite like a tube radio or amplifier.

MM54 > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 04/19/2018 at 20:38

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You’re thinking of capacitors, not resistors.

Chariotoflove > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/19/2018 at 21:03

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Cool find. I’ve heard that if you get enough working tubes, you can construct a mnemonic memory circuit that can tell you the course of alternate histories.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > random001 04/19/2018 at 22:57

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Usually by digging around the Goodwill Outlet stores, and to a lesser extent, Craigslist. This radio was a Goodwill find, and being at the outlet center it was just one trip away from the landfill. I couldn’t let that happen to a piece as nice as this...

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/20/2018 at 06:19

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I went to a goodwill outlet center one time, when you mentioned it once. I was...uncomfortable....

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > random001 04/20/2018 at 06:48

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It’s a very weird experience, I’ll grant you that. The first time I went I lasted only a few minutes before I ran for the door. Now I embrace the strangeness of it all. I have become one of the weirdos...

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/20/2018 at 07:28

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Perhaps I shall give it another try, then...