Warning on buying "restored" radios

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

If I were to sell a restored radio, I'd include a picture of the chassis below deck showing the replaced caps and other parts.

If YOU were to sell a restored radio, people should line up, does anyone online have a better resource for AA5 radios? I personally would rather have a plastic GE from the 60s with a four inch speaker, which is working like a swiss watch, than a desierable radio which is all out of whack.

I always can't believe it when people rationalize bad performance caused by incompotent repairs as a characteristic of old gear. It doesn't do the stuff any favours.

I did all my radio collecting in the early 90s, when old radios were plentiful and almost always untouched except some ancient repairs from their normal service life.