What a fun post to read. I love old radios, too. I have an old Philco model
84 that was built sometime in the 1930's... the caps, tubes and the power
cord were replaced, as well as the speaker cloth... so it looks like old,
but works like new. No SW band though, just AM, and I'm less than 3 miles
away from a flamethrower AM station, so I can't pick up much more than that
one station... but it looks cool and is a great conversation piece.

It's funny how old radios, more than any other piece of electronic
equipment, seem to conjure up folks' memories of their
dad's/grandad's/great-grandad's radio from way back in the early part of the
last century. Whenever people see mine, they usually say something like,
"Hey, I remember my granddad had one of those old tube radios, too", then
they will try and describe what it looked like. Great fun!

Jackie

My Zenith clearly doesn't look all that old. While my wooden case
was a good effort, I was only in the 7th grade, I wish I had
saved the original case. I suspect it could have been repaired.
But it will be nice to have her, I always think of radios and
cars as "shes", back in operation again. The Zenith had a much
better sound then the Heath GR64, but the GR64 was much more
sensitive and had much better selectivity.
Terry