Any good place to go online to get an ancient radio repaired?

[LiekOMG]

I have an old Telefunken tube radio from like the 50's. It still works great, but it has some slight sound quality issues that i'd like to get fixed so it sounds 100% perfect. I'd like to repair it myself since I have a lot of fun doing stuff like this. Does anyone know of a good forum or something online where I can talk to others to try to find out what the problem might be and what replacement parts I might need?

Here is a picture for those that are interested:
HOLY ANCIENT BATMAN!

 

[radioouman]

Cool!
Lots of people are into fixing old stuff like that. It should be easy to repair too, unless it needs a new tube, but even that may not be hard to find.

 

[LiekOMG]

I guess no one has any ideas, huh?

 

[Eli]

There are a few tubeheads here, PM Colt45.

There are also lots of dedicated antique electronics repair shops, at least if you live in a big city. It looks to be in excellent condition.. It may just need new tubes, or some electrolytic caps have dried out.

 

[Subbaculcha]

Ask over at audiokarma.org

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: Eli
There are a few tubeheads here, PM Colt45.

There are also lots of dedicated antique electronics repair shops, at least if you live in a big city. It looks to be in excellent condition.. It may just need new tubes, or some electrolytic caps have dried out.

Yeah, the condition really is excellent. The only problem is that the bass sounds kind of "farty" (best way I can describe it). I'm sure something is loose or needs to be replaced, but i'm not sure what. Hopefully I can find a forum that can offer some assistance.

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: Subbaculcha
Ask over at audiokarma.org

Thanks, i'll check it out! Any other recommendations?

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: DOACleric

Originally posted by: Subbaculcha
Ask over at audiokarma.org

Thanks, i'll check it out! Any other recommendations?

yeah, I had an old Sony reciever (1970, not 1950's) that had some static issues - I opened it up and cleaned all the dust out with compressed air, paying special attention to all the switch contacts and knob potentiometers, and it worked great.

I mean, there is no reason for circuitry to go bad over the years (well, a few, but if it still works then they probably didn't happen).

My advice to you is to open it up and take a good look around - if you see any wires with very degraded insulation replace them, and then clear all switches and potentionmeters as well as you are able. I am almost 100% certain that dusty contacts are responsible for any sound issues out of that set.

( I would pay special attention to the volumn knob, base, trebel, and balance knobs if you've got them, and any speaker-select switches )