The start of a Mania
29-Aug-21 I have often thought about starting a blog about all the sundry things I restore. I have been doing this in a bit of a round about way all my life, but it was more oriented to repairing old stuff that people threw away that I could use it in my workshop. I started to get really serious about this a few years ago. I was at the Maker Faire in Queens N.Y. and I noticed that someone had an old console (like 1940's) based radio, but just the husk. It reminded me of my youth when I would visit my friend Peter. They had a Blaupunt radio that had shortwave and I became enamored with listening to shortwave. (There is a whole story here for another day.) I walked away and vowed to find one. I think it was about a year later and I went to the flea market in Stormville N.Y. which (pre-COVID) used to happen about 1/month. I didn't know what I was looking at or what it cost and kind of delved in. I found what I now know is a Philco 38-7 (well, I guess I have a photo of the...