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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Sometimes people who wanted the effect of a working vintage radio but didn't know how to actually fix it would add a speaker in it and or wire the original into a stereo to fake it....I can remember being 5-9 years old and doing that (granted I didn't hack up the radios I did that with...I knew better even back then).
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You were into this EARLY, Tom! At 11, I blew the tiny IC amp in a GE "swinger" portable doing this, wrote to GE in Utica and they sent me a whole new amp PCB for like 15 bucks. Later doing same to my GE C4315 clock radio, I was getting spectacular low-power results.