by Thomas Bonomo K6AD This Heathkit IT-28 restoration article is intended to accompany a companion piece titled A Tester Every Restorer Should Own. You’ll find that article posted on the Hints & Kinks page on this CHRS website at: http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com/2012/03/a-tester-every-restorer-should-own/. Okay, that link didn’t highlight so you can click on it. Sorry. For now you’ll have [...]
Archive: Restorations
Hallicrafters SX-28 Restoration
The Hallicrafters SX-28 is just a gorgeous vintage radio. I don’t have another vacuum tube communications receiver in my collection that really provides a better “glow in the dark” feeling than does this one. The SX-28 is undoubtedly Hallicrafters’ finest pre-World War II radio (excluding Hallicrafter’s special dual diversity DD-1). This radio came from the [...]
GE 805 10″ B&W Vintage TV
by Thomas Bonomo K6AD — The General Electric model 805 10″ Bakelite vintage TV is often referred to by collectors as the “Locomotive.” I picked up this vintage vacuum tube television in relatively clean condition back in 2004 at a CHRS-KRE swapmeet in Berkeley. The set “worked.” Well, sort of. The CRT’s picture was [...]