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Radios from MAARC March monthly meeting
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Three new additions to the collection: A Philco 42PT2 I won in the draw of the day (funny that my son won the draw last month), one Detrola 568-1 with a metal cabinet, and a Zenith Transoceanic H500. Both came from winning bids in the auction. All radios need electronic restoration and the Detrola a good cabinet restoration, as quite apparent in the photo, it is with several rust spots.
Radio from MAARC February monthly meeting
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The only radio that we brought from this meeting was a General Electric model 419 that my son, Jose Eduardo, won in the draw of the day.
Nice small set in a pretty good cosmetic condition and working.
Four new pages with radios info
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Click on the radio to see its technical information.
Atwater Kent 84 (Early type - 60 Cycles) 
Philco Grandfather Clock has been restored and it is on a site page
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Grandfather clock radio 
This radio was bought at Kutztown September 2013 Radio show. As described in a former post, the chassis was complete but very dirty and with some rust, the cabinet was in a fair condition, and the clock was with a non original faceplate, hands and machine. This set has been trough a complete restoration: kitchen Lysol was used to remove the grease and phosphoric acid based product was used to dissolve the rust; all capacitors were replaced and the oscillator coil was rewound; the cabinet veneer was re-glued in some areas and the finish was removed with varnish stripper; toner lacquer Mohawk with 2 different grades was used before about 6 layers of semi-gloss lacquer; the faceplate was drawn from other grandfather clock photo using Pixelmaster in a iMac, and it is available on the radio page; a new clock machine is in use while I don`t find a original one. Radio and clock work great!
Radios from MAARC January monthly meeting
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Two sets were acquired at MAARC January meeting, a Philco 20 Deluxe in a really bad condition and a Atwater Kent 20 Big Box in a fair condition. The first one will bring lots of restoration work. But it is a kind of challange I like most.
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