[Arran]

I don't quite understand why people dislike them modified radios. Giving a 2nd (or 3rd) life to something instead of junking it can't be wrong. Not prime collector item, I agree, but still something a lot better then trashing out.

It depends on what it is and what condition it is in. In this case a 37-620 is far from being a rare radio, and in this case it sounds like it was nearly a junker, if it was a nice original that was modified I would think differently. What I hate is people gutting an otherwise easily restored radio to put a computer, a video game console, or an MP3 player, three examples of Chinese made disposable consumer electronics that typically end up in the dump after five years regardless of what you house them in, no new lease on life there at all. If they want to do this they should at least use an empty cabinet not ruin a set that has survived 70-80 years. There was one guy on the other forum who was going to do this with a 15 tube Zenith shutter dial set that he inherited (worth over $1000 in some cases) until people talked him out of it offering him an empty cabinet of his choice.
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Arran