Last week, I've seen a valve radio made by PHILIPS that is for sale. The seller tells that it is 50yrs old and it looks like same. Cleaned and beautiful on a 50cmX15cmX25cm wooden cabin. It is working fine and what I most like is it has all major Indian old city names written on the dial -so a user can easily track the local station on dial(?), however it looks like an interesting thing to me. Fairly used one and MW,SW/SW2 with antenna conn required on SW bands. Set is working fine and the guy asks for 20USD(INR1000) for that.
My doubt is how would I know whether there's any transistor radio attached inside and connected to the speaker , I cannot open the cover and once sold, I won't be seeing him again!
Also I'm not at all interested if the set fails. I really don't know about the lifetime of valves, anybody thinks that they'll survive for over 50 years without any fail? It can be a repaired one?
Any comments on this? I'm really interested on this old dude.
My doubt is how would I know whether there's any transistor radio attached inside and connected to the speaker , I cannot open the cover and once sold, I won't be seeing him again!
Also I'm not at all interested if the set fails. I really don't know about the lifetime of valves, anybody thinks that they'll survive for over 50 years without any fail? It can be a repaired one?
Any comments on this? I'm really interested on this old dude.