Johnny B
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Hi all
I'm asking here because I know you guys would be a good test audience since you're my demographic for this idea I'm having:
I've recently come into a collection of about 100 old tabletop tube radios from about 1920-1950. The thing is, these are all just shells. The guts have been removed, probably for the tubes, years ago and the remainder is just a lot of wood and cracked bakelite. However, they are still nice looking radios. There's a couple Crosley Coloradios in there, and quite a bit of Philcos. This was a really neat acquisition.
A long while ago I turned an old Admiral radio into a basic MP3 player dock by gutting the (non-functioning) insides and replacing it with a quick and dirty chop job by wiring a pair of speakers into it and hooking the original buttons up to the volume and power dial. The result was a vintage radio that could play whatever you could fit on an MP3 player or ipod or, anything, really as long as it hooked into a 3.5mm jack.
I had the idea to fill the void in my summer between university graduation and unemployment with reconditioning the old chasises... chasisi... or whatever, and actually doing a nice installation job of modern electronics, you know, mounted and secured and all, mainly speakers to turn them into iPod docks since all the "retro" looking ones today are horrible, ugly and cheap plastic. That way one could have a modern sound system in their home without breaking decor. You can hide teh stereo or whatever and just connect the wire output from the radio into its output so these old things get a second lease on life. That or install a new, modern radio into them (I've done this with one and it's pretty neat) that can pick up modern bands.
I mean entirely stripped, refurbished, revarnished, repaired, repolished radio chasis that you can hook an iPod into and actually use the radio controls to adjust power and volume, built to last another 5 decades. If I were to do this and stick them on eBay at .99 cents starting bid a piece (but aim for a 30-40 dollar range), or just sell them on a website for the same, would anyone here (or would you know of anyone) be interested in buying them, or is my idea so horrible and what I am proposing such an awful idea I should quit the internet posthaste and kill myself like the monster I am?
I'm asking here because I know you guys would be a good test audience since you're my demographic for this idea I'm having:
I've recently come into a collection of about 100 old tabletop tube radios from about 1920-1950. The thing is, these are all just shells. The guts have been removed, probably for the tubes, years ago and the remainder is just a lot of wood and cracked bakelite. However, they are still nice looking radios. There's a couple Crosley Coloradios in there, and quite a bit of Philcos. This was a really neat acquisition.
A long while ago I turned an old Admiral radio into a basic MP3 player dock by gutting the (non-functioning) insides and replacing it with a quick and dirty chop job by wiring a pair of speakers into it and hooking the original buttons up to the volume and power dial. The result was a vintage radio that could play whatever you could fit on an MP3 player or ipod or, anything, really as long as it hooked into a 3.5mm jack.
I had the idea to fill the void in my summer between university graduation and unemployment with reconditioning the old chasises... chasisi... or whatever, and actually doing a nice installation job of modern electronics, you know, mounted and secured and all, mainly speakers to turn them into iPod docks since all the "retro" looking ones today are horrible, ugly and cheap plastic. That way one could have a modern sound system in their home without breaking decor. You can hide teh stereo or whatever and just connect the wire output from the radio into its output so these old things get a second lease on life. That or install a new, modern radio into them (I've done this with one and it's pretty neat) that can pick up modern bands.
I mean entirely stripped, refurbished, revarnished, repaired, repolished radio chasis that you can hook an iPod into and actually use the radio controls to adjust power and volume, built to last another 5 decades. If I were to do this and stick them on eBay at .99 cents starting bid a piece (but aim for a 30-40 dollar range), or just sell them on a website for the same, would anyone here (or would you know of anyone) be interested in buying them, or is my idea so horrible and what I am proposing such an awful idea I should quit the internet posthaste and kill myself like the monster I am?
