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"Brian Hill" wrote:

$5!! Wow! what a find. Yea don't let her go. Chances are,You'll never
replace it,

I couldn't *afford* to replace it. I'll certainly never find another
one for $5!

At the time I bought it, it was your typical family selling off old
stuff from grandparents, I assume. Neither of us had any idea what it
was. Hell, I was a teenager at the time. I just thought that a
working radio that was as big as a TV set was cool. I was already
interested in radios, and had a few cheap Sears transistor sets. I took
some wire, connected it to the antenna connection on radio and tied the
other end to a rock. Then I tossed the rock on the roof of our house.
I couldn't believe the reception!

It wasn't until much later that I found out what it was, and realized
it's value. By that time (early 90s), it had stopped working and I was
wondering what to do with it.

One day I was in a local "antique mall" - you know the kind, a big
building with a bunch of individual "stores" which are really just
little booths. I turned a corner and could not believe what I was
looking at. A booth run by 2 guys that was wall to wall antique
radios. They ran a restoring business. One guy did the electronics,
the other did the cabinet work. We got to talking and I told them what
I had. I could see that they were salivating at the chance to restore
a Scott!

I also bought a radio from them. The Zenith tombstone. It's a pretty
typical 5 tube set. I think it's a 5S127. Nice big round black dial,
and it also sounds good. Of course it had been restored by them, and
is in outstanding condition. It works fine for MW and the bigger SW
broadcasters (BBC, VOR, etc.) but it's no DX radio. The Scott, OTOH,
pulls in everything.

Dan

Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 650
Radio Shack DX-440, Grundig YB400
Tecsun PL-230 (YB550PE), Kaito KA1102
Hallicraters S-120 (1962)
Zenith black dial 5 tube Tombstone (1936)
E. H. Scott 23 tube Imperial Allwave in Tasman cabinet (1935)