20-10-2023, 05:25 PM
I agree it sounds the sort of thing you couldn't be paid to do for a stranger and would be an act of love and madness if you or close friend owned it.
Replacing a bandswitch is possible, but huge effort.
Transformer rewind expensive
Replacing all the wires is tedious, but maybe not as bad as bandswitch (done both!).
I don't need to say anything much here about the difficulty of replacement CRTs (any rejuvenation is luck and often shortlived), or difficulty of getting it home in one piece.
Even in unlikely event of a donor chassis, it will need work and still the tube issue.
I'd give it back, and the money. But I'm biased. I've had so much grief on the last few restorations for others that even if it's rare I'll tell them to keep it for display. I'm not doing any more for anyone. Especially not an Eddystone. I have a 1928 Marconiphone that someone completely disassembled and someone else later gave to me. I will foist it off on someone very young, keen and naive.
What exactly is the owner going to do with it if it was working?
Replacing a bandswitch is possible, but huge effort.
Transformer rewind expensive
Replacing all the wires is tedious, but maybe not as bad as bandswitch (done both!).
I don't need to say anything much here about the difficulty of replacement CRTs (any rejuvenation is luck and often shortlived), or difficulty of getting it home in one piece.
Even in unlikely event of a donor chassis, it will need work and still the tube issue.
I'd give it back, and the money. But I'm biased. I've had so much grief on the last few restorations for others that even if it's rare I'll tell them to keep it for display. I'm not doing any more for anyone. Especially not an Eddystone. I have a 1928 Marconiphone that someone completely disassembled and someone else later gave to me. I will foist it off on someone very young, keen and naive.
What exactly is the owner going to do with it if it was working?
