Vintage Philco/Ford AM/FM radio

[ben7]

I got an old working Philco/Ford solid state radio for $7.50! It is in great shape too. The caps need to be replaced, I only had a few replacements in my capacitor box. You can see the main filter cap is about to burst its bubble. After replacing it, it got plugged in, and viola! It works!

 

[RCinFLA]

Guess everything is relative. I don't consider 60's electronics as 'vintage'.

Maybe you can find an 8 track tape player where you found that radio.

 

[audioguru]

It looks like a cheap clock radio. New ones sound and perform as bad but cost only $1.50.
A "vintage" radio uses vacuum tubes.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Looks a really cheap and nasty Japanese radio, not even a particularly old one as transistor radios go.

 

[ben7]

Actually, it doesn't sound really bad! I consider anything electronic over 40 years old vintage.

 

[ben7]

Looks a really cheap and nasty Japanese radio, not even a particularly old one as transistor radios go.

It's the chinese crap that I hate. Japanese stuff ain't that bad.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

It's the chinese crap that I hate. Japanese stuff ain't that bad.

The early days were pretty dire

It's as if once the Japanese got there act together the Chinese took over making the crap.

 

[Dean Huster]

It took a tour through the Asian Pacific Rim for manufacturing. When each country started, it was "junk" as compared to what we were used to here in the States. But it was cheaper. Then it started getting better and a bit more expensive, so manufacturing of the "junk" went to another country as the first country got their act together and started putting out decent stuff. It started with Japan. Then Hong Kong. Taiwan. Korea. And now China. Remember when "Made in Japan" was the phrase that said "Don't buy me; I'm junk"? Now the Japanese have some of the finest optics, electronics, autos, motorcycles, machine tools, etc. Grizzley tools are made in Taiwan and are darned good tools. Korea makes the Hyundai, Kia and LG products. China still makes junk. Dangerous junk. Hong Kong got out of the manufacturing business, I suppose because their land was too expensive for that foolishness.

 

[ben7]

It took a tour through the Asian Pacific Rim for manufacturing. When each country started, it was "junk" as compared to what we were used to here in the States. But it was cheaper. Then it started getting better and a bit more expensive, so manufacturing of the "junk" went to another country as the first country got their act together and started putting out decent stuff. It started with Japan. Then Hong Kong. Taiwan. Korea. And now China. Remember when "Made in Japan" was the phrase that said "Don't buy me; I'm junk"? Now the Japanese have some of the finest optics, electronics, autos, motorcycles, machine tools, etc. Grizzley tools are made in Taiwan and are darned good tools. Korea makes the Hyundai, Kia and LG products. China still makes junk. Dangerous junk. Hong Kong got out of the manufacturing business, I suppose because their land was too expensive for that foolishness.

Oh yes, chinese junk is very dangerous sometimes! I forget where it was made, but we had a dishwasher that would smell like burning plastic whenever we used the electric heating (drying) element. We stopped using the heating element. Dishwasher was fine for a while, then the motor started having trouble starting, it would hum loudly and freak me out! Well, the motor quit, so we junked the dishwasher, after 6 years of use. A week later after we junked it, I found out it (the dishwasher) had been RECALLED!!!!!
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