Collectors' disease

[ppppenguin]

https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-south...l-archives

[BusyBee]

It's interesting but I'm not sure how practical.  I think the only practical way forward, except for some specific volumes (how and who chooses?), is on the model of "World Radio History".

Tracy

[Mike Watterson]

I've nearly 300 vintage radios & related I need to find a home for. Unlike magazines they can't be "digitised". They aren't even all on the Radio Museum.

[Radio Fixer]

Wow! Mike

300 makes me feel a lot better at only 60 and many of them are small.

Wouldnt have a McMichael 387 you want to go would uou? Its a portable version of the 808 'roller ball'.

thanks Gary

[Mike Watterson]

I've at least McMichael
1929 : Super Range Portable four
1935 : 235
1946 : 463
1948 : 484

There might be others. I've no complete catalogue. Those were all working / restored inc replica battery packs. The 1929 LT is NiMH C cells in a jar. The 1948 LT is a real 2V industrial type Lead Acid in glass. It was an unused, never filled 1970s one and I filled it with suitable sulphuric acid about 5 years ago, so might not be great. I could never get the highest frequency SW working on the 484 (about 20% of UK homes still had no mains in 1948 and that model was in a Rectory from new, in Shetland or Orkney. I have the Glasgow supplier box somewhere too.

[Radio Fixer]

Please keep an eye out for a 387.

Here is what it looks like:

   

thanks Gary

[Mike Watterson]

Please keep an eye out for a 387.

Yes, when I was collecting (for about 20 years?) I looked out for that. One once went for mad money.

There were a couple of other McMichael models I'd have liked. One was large with pop-up scale under a lid and the other had speakers with the 1928-1931 style fret at both sides.

[Panrock]

Brings back memories of this McMichael: one of the first radios I restored in the 1980s. I never came across another one.

Steve

[Radio Fixer]

Yes! a McM 808 Steve.

I had one like yours but in poor shape. Missing badge and cracks and chips in the Bakelite parts. Filled those with that excelent PlastiPare and sprayed painted. That filler hangs in there even over time.

Never going to be a display piece though.

Gary