[Roadsters] If you ever want your radio restored . . .

[Paul Courson]

Yes the caps dry up from heat and old age. And the speaker paper gets
brittle. I think it's great you're fixing up the original factory radio.
Around here I listen to baseball color on a 50,000 watt AMer, WBAL. There
is something correct about hearing a game on AM turned up loud.
On Apr 9, 2014 9:41 AM, "John Stromgren" <lutepisk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Linda.
>
> He replaced a bunch of capacitors, returning the old ones to me in a baggie
> (perhaps I'll make a sculpture out of them) and replaced the speaker, which
> I knew was shot.  In his e-mails, he wrote about each one, as if I knew
> what he was talking about, which was flattering, if not illuminating.  He
> pointed them out in his video, too.
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Linda Jordan <ljordan704 at aim.com> wrote:
>
> > What did he have to do to it, did he say?
> >
> > Linda
> >
> > John Stromgren <lutepisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hey, All.
> > >
> > >I'm getting my car painted, and decided, what the heck, maybe I'll try
> to
> > >spruce it up on the inside, too, and fix stuff that's broken, like the
> > >radio.
> > >
> > >I found this guy in Liverpool, NY - Dave Froehlich.  He's amazing.  I
> > asked
> > >him what the chances were of him being able to fix my old Toshiba AM
> > radio,
> > >and he e-mailed me back the schematic for it!
> > >
> > >Off it goes in a box, along with the speaker and a money order for $65
> > >(plus shipping), and shortly thereafter I get an e-mail with his
> > >assessment.  Then more e-mails, keeping me up-to-date on his progress,
> and
> > >even a *movie* to demonstrate the sound he's getting out of it!
> > >
> > >The whole process was less than two weeks.  I sent him a note with
> another
> > >twenty bucks to thank him for being such an attentive service man.  I
> have
> > >never heard this radio in the car, and I'm excited to install it and
> pull
> > >that antenna up and go back in time, as it seems like AM tends toward
> > >oldies, as well as baseball and weather.  What fun this will be.
> > >
> > >You would probably make this guy's day by sending him another Datsun
> radio
> > >- he appears to live for this stuff.
> > >
> > >http://www.tubesandtransistorsandmore.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >Looking forward to spring, which might still come,
> > >
> > >John
> > >--
> > >John Stromgren
> > >SRL311-14061
> > >Portsmouth, NH
> > >
> > >[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type video/quicktime which had a
> > name of DatsunRadio.MOV]
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