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That week in 2012 when I fixed 17 old tube radios for a collector in Dayton
It was nuts, this guy brought in his whole collection for a checkup before a big show. Every single one had a different problem, from bad caps in a Zenith to a cracked resistor in a Philco. What made it good was the quiet focus, just me and the old schematics, no phones ringing. Anyone else miss those deep dive jobs before everything got so surface level?
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nora7674d ago
Remember reading a blog post from a guy who restored old radios, and he said the best part was the smell of hot dust and warm tubes. That quiet focus you're talking about is totally a real thing. It's like the world just fades away when you're tracing a circuit with a schematic that's older than you are. Those deep dive jobs are getting harder to find now that everything is about quick swaps and disposable parts. Makes you appreciate the skill it took to actually fix something for good.
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