Old Time Radios! Restoration and Repair | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph J. Carr
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0830633421
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.384187
EAN: 9780830633425
ASIN: 0830633421
Publication Date: November 1, 1990
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Book Description
Presents the history, theory, and practical operation behind old-time home, auto, amateur, shortwave, and CB radio sets, providing the detailed instructions and schematics needed to repair or rebuild them. Carr even includes a complete classic radio troubleshooting course, a capacitor/resistor color code chart for identifying radio parts, and vacuum tube pin-out diagrams that are often absent from schematics.
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 My goal was accomplished by reading this book. July 6, 2008
I have been interested in and tinkered with electronics since I was a boy, but I didn't have the knowledge to do any involved repairs. Over the years my family and I have had tube radios that worked fine at one time, then started to hum, with the humming eventually getting so bad it drowned out everything else. I remembered my folks taking one of these sets to a radio/TV repairman when I was a kid and being told it wasn't worth fixing. For years I have wanted to find out what caused this and maybe fix those radios. Some 30 years later I spied this book, bought it, and found out what all that humming was caused by. I have proceeded to fix 3 of those old radios that now work like new, for only a few dollars in parts! This book taught me everything I needed to know to do it. I couldn't be more pleased. I had to re-read some sections a few times to "get it", but the info I needed was all there. I can't recommend this book highly enough!!
 Nice book on radio theory June 28, 2008
If you want a book on how tube radios work, this is a great book. If you want to know how to actually restore radios, not so good.
 Good book for restoring old radios. January 19, 2008
Very thorough. This is a good book if you want to restore old radios. Gives a good explanation of history, and how the tubes and circuits work. There is a good section on troublshooting and repair. The only complaint is that the author goes into great detail to explain how the circuits are effected using equations in calculus ect. It is just a bit much for the novice to grasp. Otherwise a good book on old radios.
 There are better options August 15, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is OK and I'm glad I bought it, but the author spends too much time on the theory and history of antique radios. Only about 1/3rd of the book is devoted to troubleshooting, and even that part is a little bit sketchy. I think a person can find better troubleshooting manuals, tube manuals, and other interesting literature for free online if you just spend a few minutes searching. It has been my experience that the New Jersey Antique Radio Club is a great resource.
Mr. Carr wrote a great book, but you can do better online.
 Definitely not for beginners. March 2, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a waste of money! All the hype for this book lead me to believe this was a book that would be valuable to a beginner in the restoration of antique radios. I should have ignored the positive posts that were obviously posted by close members of the author's immediate family. If one is into theory, this is probably about as good as it gets. If one is looking for basic restoration help, fugeddabowdit!
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