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northern Electric finished
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I bought this Northern Electric tombstone radio about three weeks ago and now it is all finished.
   I found that the transformer had a shorted secondary, so I used a new one I had bought for my rogers 10-12 .
 then I found  that the choke somehow got a hole in it and about 20 wires were broke. I got another one from a good friend of mine  and after all that work, the radio plays very well.
 It does not have a dial but rather a backlighted dial that rotates as you turn the knob. For a different band, a different color rotates around
  The cabinet  took the regular amount of work , stripping ,staining and toning.
Now it is a keeper.
 Dan in Calgary.  PS here is a link to the interview that I gave to the CBC .
It is about 5 minutes long.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/programs/homestretch/people-who-fix-things-old-radios-1.4192174


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   Living in Calgary Alberta
#2

Beautiful Radio Dan, and your interview was really good. Thanks for posting it.
#3

Very nice looking piece, Dan.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#4

I love it...
Super job on the cabinet... A++

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Times I have been electrocuted in 2021
As of 1/01/2021
AC: 4 DC: 1
Last year: 6
#5

That's a beauty. I love the dial, very classy.

Greg

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
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