Johnny B
Familiar Face
- Messages
- 73
- Location
- N. America
Silver like chrome mirror silver, or just sparkly gray?
I found this on the internet as an art deco colour pallette; I like these colours:
Anyway the resin has set and the case now looks like this:
which doesn't look all that hot but once it's filed, sanded, patched, primed and painted should look worlds above what it first looked like. PS that dark line in the second picture isn't a raised section it's just the stripped paint on the joint
And that's all the work I can put in for the next few days, they have me run ragged at work due to the long weekend here in Canada so once I'm back home in my workshop progress on this and the wood Rogers radio will just speed up on by. Right now I'm trying to find a good pair of speakers to replace the insides with.
To help pass the time I'll tell the story of how I came into possession of these radios:
A friend of a friend of a friend (honestly there are quite a few degrees of separation here) inherited his father's radio collection some time back. This was a fairly substantial collection. There were about 300 radios, dating back from about 1919 up to 1962. There was everything in there- refrigerator sized consoles and over designed bakelitle streamlined cases.
At some point he needed money and was not doing anything with these radios except keeping them in a damp basement so the whole thing got picked over by collectors. All the most desireable radios were taken and the remainder were cannibalize for tubes, capacitors and whatever other electronics they could salvage from them
Thereafter the remainder was shoved into a storage unit and forgotten about. When I learned about them I asked if I could have a couple (for the purposes of rebuilding them as described in this thread) and asked for a bakelite one and a wood one and got these two.
The little green Philip radio's story is esepcially tragic; it was painted a horrible green at some point, then crushed when another giant tabletop was stacked on top of it.
I hate to see the last remnants of good design die in a storage locker, being eaten by water damage and father time so I hope (well, I know) that there are people here who can give these guys a new home as I fix them
I found this on the internet as an art deco colour pallette; I like these colours:
Anyway the resin has set and the case now looks like this:
which doesn't look all that hot but once it's filed, sanded, patched, primed and painted should look worlds above what it first looked like. PS that dark line in the second picture isn't a raised section it's just the stripped paint on the joint
And that's all the work I can put in for the next few days, they have me run ragged at work due to the long weekend here in Canada so once I'm back home in my workshop progress on this and the wood Rogers radio will just speed up on by. Right now I'm trying to find a good pair of speakers to replace the insides with.
To help pass the time I'll tell the story of how I came into possession of these radios:
A friend of a friend of a friend (honestly there are quite a few degrees of separation here) inherited his father's radio collection some time back. This was a fairly substantial collection. There were about 300 radios, dating back from about 1919 up to 1962. There was everything in there- refrigerator sized consoles and over designed bakelitle streamlined cases.
At some point he needed money and was not doing anything with these radios except keeping them in a damp basement so the whole thing got picked over by collectors. All the most desireable radios were taken and the remainder were cannibalize for tubes, capacitors and whatever other electronics they could salvage from them
Thereafter the remainder was shoved into a storage unit and forgotten about. When I learned about them I asked if I could have a couple (for the purposes of rebuilding them as described in this thread) and asked for a bakelite one and a wood one and got these two.
The little green Philip radio's story is esepcially tragic; it was painted a horrible green at some point, then crushed when another giant tabletop was stacked on top of it.
I hate to see the last remnants of good design die in a storage locker, being eaten by water damage and father time so I hope (well, I know) that there are people here who can give these guys a new home as I fix them