Vintage radio collection including parts

[jtu]

Hi,

My father died 2 years ago. He was engineer and one of his hobbies was vintage radio repair. He made a small collection, ~20 radios + spare parts. 20th century, couple pieces seem to be from before 50ies.

Most should be working condition (untested). Not that there is a lot of AM radio stations left in the world There is just one where I live, Merkurs @ 1485kHz

Now I'm thinking what to do with the stuff.

I don't want to go into vintage radios myself. My interests in electronics lay elsewhere. But throwing it out feel like a shame.

I'd sell it if there would be some private collectors market with interest. I checked ebay, very little of similar stuff. Plus that would be quite an effort to sell it piece by piece...

I dropped this into local electronics enthusiasts forum. There were couple reponses, people interested in a few pieces.

You can check the pics here.

Veiksmi,
J?nis

[Terry01]

Hi,

My father died 2 years ago. He was engineer and one of his hobbies was vintage radio repair. He made a small collection, ~20 radios + spare parts. 20th century, couple pieces seem to be from before 50ies.

Most should be working condition (untested). Not that there is a lot of AM radio stations left in the world There is just one where I live, Merkurs @ 1485kHz

Now I'm thinking what to do with the stuff.

I don't want to go into vintage radios myself. My interests in electronics lay elsewhere. But throwing it out feel like a shame.

I'd sell it if there would be some private collectors market with interest. I checked ebay, very little of similar stuff. Plus that would be quite an effort to sell it piece by piece...

I dropped this into local electronics enthusiasts forum. There were couple reponses, people interested in a few pieces.

You can check the pics here.

Veiksmi,
J?nis

Some cool stuff that I don't know what it is but well cool for sure. It would be nice if someone who restores this kind of stuff could get it and fix it up properly. Someone who understands what they are looking at would be nice.

Hope it ends up in the correct place buddy..

Thanks for sharing pictures! 

[jtu]

Some cool stuff that I don't know what it is but well cool for sure. It would be nice if someone who restores this kind of stuff could get it and fix it up properly. Someone who understands what they are looking at would be nice.

To be honest, I understand most of it myself and could figure out the rest It's just not my thing.

I'd really appreciate somebody who likes it to show up

[frozenfrogz]

Wow! That is a big pile of awesome parts!
This is what heaven must look like for a guitar amp tech!

[bitseeker]

Hope you can find a new home for it. Lots of neat old radios.

[medical-nerd]

Hiya

With such a great collection it may be worthwhile joining the retro radio forum:

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/index.php

The members there can then advise you..

Cheers

[jtu]

With such a great collection it may be worthwhile joining the retro radio forum:

Thanks for the idea! I'll definitely go in this direction. I joined http://antiqueradios.com/forums/, waiting for my first post to be approved. Then will copy it to the forum you suggested too.

[jtu]

Hmm, after reading the rules of https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/index.php I'm not so sure... Seem they do not want people like me there. They explicitly say that offering something there is privilege of regular members. I'm not going to be one.

Under that light I rechecked the rules of http://antiqueradios.com/forums/ They are not as strict as the other forum, but I got the feeling that might still be the case. Let's see if they will approve my post.

[jtu]

Ok, http://antiqueradios.com/ accepted my post and there is response. See here if interested.

[jtu]

https://www.vintage-radio.net/ accepted too. See the thread here.

[jtu]

Hmm... No activity there I could transform to more actions for me. Currently the feeling is that either I explore those few local contacts I have mentioned or pack it and conserve as much as possible and move to the attic... First one leads to never-ending process of piece-by-piece transactions. Second... to giving the task to my kids when I die? Hopefully not

Sorry if I sound like complaining. I'm just trying to think aloud here, but maybe I am too...

[Squarewave]

Don't give up on the vintage Radio Forum just yet. Moving on a lot of equipment can be slow and take a lot of time but you'll soon find somebody interested in something that you have, perhaps somebody already is interested but they are giving it some thought before contacting you.