One of the things I took from that 2R11 truck yesterday was the factory stock radio and it's various pieces. I told Anne I thought it was a valuable piece and how fortunate I felt in finding it intact with a nice faceplate and chrome. I just knew it would shine up with a bit of cleaning. Of course, being 55 years old, I had no fantasies that it might play when powered up, but there's folks that specialize in rehabbing old radios and that would be some new owner's option to pursue.
After I'd been home a short while, I retrieved the radio from the truck and carried it into the garage. I was going to find a piece of extra fine steel wool to rub the tarnished chrome bezel with so I could see it gleam![]
I set the radio on top of a box that set in the middle of the garage. I turned towards the shelf to look for that wad of Steel wool that I'd seen the day before. .......CRASH!
The box that the radio was on had collapsed and sent the radio to the floor, face first. @!!**%)$@_!! ~+__*&%^$!!![8]
Before I even picked it up, I could see pieces of the once fine tuner glass shattered on the floor. It fell all of maybe TWO feet and yet the chrome bezel was twisted and cracked, 3 knobs broken and of course, that pretty dial glass. (explitive deleted!)
I went into the house and fumed for about a half hour. Then I marched out to the shop to see if I still had one of these radios that I'd liberated from a 49 Commander some years before. Sure enough - there it was collecting a thick coat of dust on a shelf.
I brought it up to the garage and started taking it apart to scavenge the face and knobs. Since Stude used this same model radio from before WWII into the 2R truck years, there's a fair number of them still out there.
I started to realize that this "donor" radio was cleaner and nicer than the one I'd gotten out of the truck. But I took the bezel off anyway so I could give it a good cleaning.
It was only this afternoon that I got around to continuing with the radio's cleanup. I took the tubes out 1 by 1 and blew the dust out of the case. The speaker cone looked good whereas the one in the truck radio was ripped all to hell.
So anyway, I finally got around to socking 6 volts to the thing and the vibrator started humming right off! [:0] Good sign.[8D] It hummed a bit with an uneven tone until the tubes started to glow. Then there came a baseball game out of it's speaker! HOT DOG! I was so amazed that the damned thing was playing that I didn't even notice who the game was between.
SO - one truck radio and install kit coming to ebay real soon. Pretty cool - even after the tragedy of the crash!
Miscreant at large.
1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS
After I'd been home a short while, I retrieved the radio from the truck and carried it into the garage. I was going to find a piece of extra fine steel wool to rub the tarnished chrome bezel with so I could see it gleam![]
I set the radio on top of a box that set in the middle of the garage. I turned towards the shelf to look for that wad of Steel wool that I'd seen the day before. .......CRASH!
The box that the radio was on had collapsed and sent the radio to the floor, face first. @!!**%)$@_!! ~+__*&%^$!!![8]
Before I even picked it up, I could see pieces of the once fine tuner glass shattered on the floor. It fell all of maybe TWO feet and yet the chrome bezel was twisted and cracked, 3 knobs broken and of course, that pretty dial glass. (explitive deleted!)
I went into the house and fumed for about a half hour. Then I marched out to the shop to see if I still had one of these radios that I'd liberated from a 49 Commander some years before. Sure enough - there it was collecting a thick coat of dust on a shelf.
I brought it up to the garage and started taking it apart to scavenge the face and knobs. Since Stude used this same model radio from before WWII into the 2R truck years, there's a fair number of them still out there.
I started to realize that this "donor" radio was cleaner and nicer than the one I'd gotten out of the truck. But I took the bezel off anyway so I could give it a good cleaning.
It was only this afternoon that I got around to continuing with the radio's cleanup. I took the tubes out 1 by 1 and blew the dust out of the case. The speaker cone looked good whereas the one in the truck radio was ripped all to hell.
So anyway, I finally got around to socking 6 volts to the thing and the vibrator started humming right off! [:0] Good sign.[8D] It hummed a bit with an uneven tone until the tubes started to glow. Then there came a baseball game out of it's speaker! HOT DOG! I was so amazed that the damned thing was playing that I didn't even notice who the game was between.
SO - one truck radio and install kit coming to ebay real soon. Pretty cool - even after the tragedy of the crash!
Miscreant at large.
1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS
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