1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair and Restoration

Nice restoration. I have a Hallicrafters SX-62 I need to finish restoring. It cool to see Soviet Union printed on the glass.

I always am amazed by how chaotic point-to-point wiring is. Diodes hanging here, a capacitor there, with no real sense of organization. It's such a contrast from the ordered appearance of a PCB.

Love this. When I was a kid, my friend and I used to visit radio and TV stores to scrounge old radio chasses just like this. We take them home, not to repair them, but to scavenge them for the parts. We'd use these big ass soldering irons or guns to remove the components, pull the tubes, and remove all the pots and other mechanical parts. Once we had pulled everything we could, the rest would go into the trash. All the parts would go into separate storage boxes by type and by value.

Why did we do this? Well, we told ourselves we were going to build some ham radio equipment. Of course, we never did and all the parts eventually got scrapped but when you're 10 years old and summer days lasted forever, it was fun way to spend a few hours.

I love that this is a blog post and not a video. I can read in my own time, not disturb others around me, and really peer at the pictures without having to pause at the exact correct moment.

YES! This 1000x! I hate how ever damn thing is a freaking video now!

“Let’s review still image quality of latest mcgizmo phones… via video!” “Let’s turn a 3 minute read into a mindless 45 minute video for “engagement””