1931 Brunswick 12A mini console

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

Your radio situation is kind of like the situation with my old Westinghouse WR-10 Tombstone radio I recently acquired. The original cabinet on it was shot beyond repair but the chassis although a little rusty was still clean inside and had never been repaired in its entire history as it still even had its original cloth cord intact yet on the chassis.

Anyways I cleaned up the rust on the chassis and the tubes (which were absolutely filthy), and went to put the radio back together to test it, and it wouldn't power on, did some testing and it turned out the original cord had an open somewhere on the neutral side, so I wired on a temporary cord for testing purposes and the radio came to life and it was working perfectly with its original Dry Electrolytic Power Supply caps still in place.

The interesting thing is is that my radio I got going had previously been sitting in an old Farmhouse that the roof to it had collapsed 20 years ago which is why the cabinet was shot and chassis was somewhat rusty but considering the conditions that the radio was stored in for the past 20 years the radio still worked with not much work to get it going.

Great story! I've actually heard many of them in all my years in the hobby. Many of these early sets were so overbuilt that they proved to be even better than the engineers likely ever anticipated! I have a '28 Radiola 60 that is still working fine with no signs of any repairs made.