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Servicing & Restoration
_About This Section
Vintage gear includes anything not in current production. This includes anything with tubes except items in recent production, cassette players, portable radios and the like.
Files
- An Open Letter to the Service Technician in 1949.pdf
- Ancient Transformers, Tubes and speakers.pdf
- Antique Radio Replacement drive belts made easy.pdf
- Antique Transformers.pdf
- Basic Tube Restoration (2).pdf
- Basic Tube Restoration.pdf
- Bringing Antique Radios Back to Life.pdf
- Cabinet Refinishing.pdf
- Checking and Repairing the Valves.pdf
- Checking Tube Nationality.pdf
- Coping with TVs Number 2 Bad Guy in 1968.pdf
- Electronic Geriatrics.pdf
- Fixing Portable Radios.pdf
- Foreign Tube Substitution Data.pdf
- Fundamentals of Radio Servicing Part 2 - Ohms Law.pdf
- Fundamentals of Tube Radio Service Part 9.pdf
- Getting Started Restoring Antique Radios.pdf
- Hints and Tips from 1944.pdf
- Mechanical Clock Radio Servicing.pdf
- Renewing Cabinets.pdf
- Repairing Antique Radios.pdf
- Repairing Vintage Radios.pdf
- Restoring a Vintage American Midget Radio Safety Warning EA 1988-02.pdf
- Restoring an Antique Philco Cathedral Radio.pdf
- Restoring Early Vacuum Tubes - Part 3.pdf
- Restoring Old Radios.pdf
- Restoring Vintage Radios - Capacitors.pdf
- Safety for Restorers Part 2 PE 1991-12.pdf
- Servicing Farm Receivers.pdf
- Shutter Dial Set Plays.pdf
- Test Bench Tips.pdf
- TV Repair Adventures from the 1960s.pdf
- Vintage Radio - Those Troublesome Capacitors Part 1 SC 2004-10.pdf
- Vintage Radio Restoration (2).pdf
- Vintage Radio Restoration Part 2 EA 1987-05.pdf
- Vintage Radio Restoration.pdf
- Vintage Radio Servicing.pdf
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Viewers
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- Sumatra PDF (Windows)
- DjView (DjVu)
- WinDjView (Windows, DjVu)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF)