Servicing and repairing
I get a lot of enquirys from people who wish to have their radio's repaired, from simple broken dial cords to full repair and service. These are often from Ebay purchases that were perhaps not quite accurate as to the working condition or again from collectors who are now looking to get a particular radio working rather than just for display.
At first most people will contact me via the phone as to what I am able to offer them, and I can recommend using the parcel2go site as a convenient and cost effective way to have your radio picked up from your home and delivered to me so I can at first undertake a evaluation on it before any work is carried out and give you a price relating to it.
This way the customer can feel confident that they will not get an unsheduled bill far in excess to what was either discused or to the value of the unit itself; Of course a radio that has been in your family for a long period of time will have a greater intrinsic value than perhaps a recent purchase.
As a member of the British Vintage Wireless Society , the radio itself has more value to me rather than what can i think i could charge and get away with it concept. Thats why when I have bought radios in for parts I end up repairing them. This happened to me recently on a Goblin Time Spot, The case looked like it had been dropped from a great height, missing panel etc, but I just could not scrap it, it just felt wrong