27-06-2012, 12:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-06-2012, 12:25 AM by Robert Darwent.)
Hi David,
Appreciate your confidence in me David, but that not withstanding even if you have the required missing components, paying £1200+ for a fixer-upper is a little OTT if you ask me.
Yes I know who it was, if you remember I was lucky enough to purchase a similar chassis a few weeks prior to that one for even less that became the starting point for my Replica A22T project.
Absolutely! I seem to remember you sent me some of those images by email a while back. It very much reminds me of the condition of the first A22 I acquired where the seller assured me the set had been "comprehensively overhauled" and "was in superb working order". You will be aware that was the chassis I restored that had been daubed in black treacle-like paint!
All I can say is that some people have very strange ideas about how to go about restoring a vintage radio.
Regards
(26-06-2012, 07:27 PM)Yorkie Wrote: I doubt that whoever bought it - apart from yourself Robert, and maybe two or three others - would be able to make anything of it unless they have all of the bits that were missing.
Appreciate your confidence in me David, but that not withstanding even if you have the required missing components, paying £1200+ for a fixer-upper is a little OTT if you ask me.
(26-06-2012, 07:27 PM)Yorkie Wrote: It soon became clear who'd bought it as he issued a wanted request on another forum for all the missing bits! Don't know if he had any success, but at £67.00 it was a gift. (No-one on here BTW).
Yes I know who it was, if you remember I was lucky enough to purchase a similar chassis a few weeks prior to that one for even less that became the starting point for my Replica A22T project.
(26-06-2012, 07:27 PM)Yorkie Wrote: It ought to be a crime - 'cruelty to radios' or some such thing.
Absolutely! I seem to remember you sent me some of those images by email a while back. It very much reminds me of the condition of the first A22 I acquired where the seller assured me the set had been "comprehensively overhauled" and "was in superb working order". You will be aware that was the chassis I restored that had been daubed in black treacle-like paint!
All I can say is that some people have very strange ideas about how to go about restoring a vintage radio.
Regards
