Servicing your own equipment

Servicing your own equipment:


Classic Radio Shop has over five thousand original service data sheets for not only radio's but also televisions and tape recorders. Starting from 1930 through to the mid 1970's. These are scanned and emailed direct to you within hours. See price list


Servicing:

Classic Radio Shop can, repair, service or restore your radio. I chose the words carefully as defining the difference from repair to restore, would require a large undertaking. The most important factor effecting these are of course cost. We have clients who have purchased from a popular internet auction site a radio that is faulty, this is repaired and therefore usable again. Perhaps the radio has the odd problem, noisy volume control, tunning is perhaps difficult or the wooden or bakelite case needs cleaning, this would require servicing. While restore would require perhaps full polishing and repairs to a wooden cabinet, replacement parts to known components, etc. I try to keep and re-use as many original parts as possible as I feel that this is part of it's  history. Having a 60 year old cabinet with 5 year old components is'nt quite a period radio, in the same way having a classic car with new engine, gearbox, new wheels etc would not be an original classic car.


All repair, servicing is guaranteed for 6 months, some components are pending the age of the radio are becoming difficult to obtain. It is well known that switch cleaner will for a short time solve certain problem's, note short. Taking it apart and cleaning generally resolve issues, but if it is using carbon track that is worn, and a replacement is not possible, then switch cleaner may be the only way. But customers would be informed in advance if this was to happen. ( this is rare)



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