Electricians in Leeds as wot can fix old stuff?

[Whyme]

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[Brunel]

There is a chance that it could be something simple of course.Do you still use this fine old piece of test equipment?A long time ago, in another era I used to repair valve "stuff" and still have a dabble with vintage radio.I am willing to have a look for you.

[BLAKEY]

I can't resist confessing to a sad misconception which I had as a todller of three or four years old - no quips please about crystal sets and smoke signals - when we had a huge old wooden LIZZEN radio.    The blooming thing was hopeless when "working" and frequently failed even to do that.    The poor chap from the local radio shop, Albert Innes of Wells Road (then) Ilkley, used to attend grimly like a doctor arriving to comfort a patient with no hope left.On one of these occasions I watched while the huge card back panel was removed hoping to see at last all my friends who lived in there - Freddy Grizewood, Alvar Liddell and the other WW2 news readers, and perhaps even a few bars from Henry Hall and his light orchestra. Imagine my horror to find only four large glass valves and other items, and the impostor of the lot - a large loudspeaker calling itself "Magnavox."I dare not print on here what Dad used to call the set every time it had one of its relapses during the Saturday teatime football results - the description certainly didn't tally with what was on the instruction manual, if there was such a thing. After its total demise, with a string of hefty repair bills to its name, it was replaced by a very fine Cossor "Melody Maker" which was at pains to emphasise that it was a "five valve superheterodyne", whatever one o' them is !!    

[Uno Hoo]

[After its total demise, with a string of hefty repair bills to its name, it was replaced by a very fine Cossor "Melody Maker" which was at pains to emphasise that it was a "five valve superheterodyne", whatever one o' them is !!    Ah, but did Radio Luxembourg still "come and go" quite as frequently with five wotsits instead of four?

[BLAKEY]

Uno Hoo wrote: [After its total demise, with a string of hefty repair bills to its name, it was replaced by a very fine Cossor "Melody Maker" which was at pains to emphasise that it was a "five valve superheterodyne", whatever one o' them is !!     Ah, but did Radio Luxembourg still "come and go" quite as frequently with five wotsits instead of four? Yes indeed Uno Hoo it did     Also it was delivered with a fault that I couldn't "suss out" for ages. When I plugged a gramophone into the "PU" sockets at the back nothing happened - the dealer eventually confessed that a wire was missing from the "PU" socket to the volume control - this was added and the problem was solved.    

[chameleon]

BLAKEY wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: [After its total demise, with a string of hefty repair bills to its name, it was replaced by a very fine Cossor "Melody Maker" which was at pains to emphasise that it was a "five valve superheterodyne", whatever one o' them is !!     Ah, but did Radio Luxembourg still "come and go" quite as frequently with five wotsits instead of four? Yes indeed Uno Hoo it did     Also it was delivered with a fault that I couldn't "suss out" for ages. When I plugged a gramophone into the "PU" sockets at the back nothing happened - the dealer eventually confessed that a wire was missing from the "PU" socket to the volume control - this was added and the problem was solved.    Gran had one which took pride of place sitting on the big Singer sewing machine ( a must-have item for every family), in front of the window - I wonder if it was the same model?Upright walnut case with the fabricspeaker grill on the front and a large hand swinging from one side to the other as you turned the knob of the varicap to indicate the station present at any given point - memories of Droitwhich at one end and out space at the other! Always ery reliable and similarly responsible for my first electric shochk when sticking wires for an extension speaker into the designated wander plug sockets on the rearAnd them valve - veritable bottles by way of later offerings weren't they! How did the weekdays go - HOusewife's choice, musid whilst you work, Billy Cotton's worker's playtime was it?

[Crazy Jane]

"There is a chance that it could be something simple of course.Do you still use this fine old piece of test equipment?"I picked it up recently on Ebay to see what it was like to use for electronic music purposes, so it certainly will get used but not for it's original purpose.For what it's worth though, i do have a Quad 22/2/2 amp that i use, still damn good even in this age Re the Advance and Chaleleon's suggestion, i've been a bit hesitant to fire it up with the case open as everything is attached to the front panel so when you take the other 5 sides off there's no bottom and it;s sat on an exposed transformer Let me see if the m&b guy gets back to me, and i'll perhaps try it again and have a think if i can see a safe way to check the valves.Thanks for the input guys.

[Uno Hoo]

Some days the lunchtime variety slot was Midday Music Hall. Can't remember how the afternoon programmes went on the BBC Light Programme, but ISTR they were largely music to be played over loudspeakers in factories. The signature tune to "Music While You Work" was "Calling All Workers" by Eric Coates, specially commissioned by the War Cabinet to boost morale in munitions factories.It's a long time since I saw Hilversum on a radio dial.

[chameleon]

'played over loudspeakers in factories'And now of course attracts the attention of the Performing Rights Society who like most things these days, want you brass for it!

[BLAKEY]

[quotenick="chameleonUpright walnut case with the fabricspeaker grill on the front and a large hand swinging from one side to the other as you turned the knob of the varicap to indicate the station present at any given point - memories of Droitwhich at one end and out space at the other! Always ery reliable and similarly responsible for my first electric shochk when sticking wires for an extension speaker into the designated wander plug sockets on the rearAnd them valve - veritable bottles by way of later offerings weren't they! How did the weekdays go - HOusewife's choice, musid whilst you work, Billy Cotton's worker's playtime was it? No chameleon, it was not that model. Ours had a large square speaker grill at the top and a circular tuning dial below, and four knobs for various functions. Its a good job the Trades Descriptions Act was not in force or all the radio manufacturers would have been constantly in Court. The ambitious station names were fascinating - there were dozens on that dial - Daventry, Bournemouth, Hilversum, Lahti, Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, etc etc. With yards of aerial wire and an "earth" stuck in the garden you were lucky to get the BBC on a good day !! The maker's name LIZZEN was a sick joke as you were rarely able to LISTEN satisfactorily Anyone remember, until fairly recently, a little shop in Cookridge Street which sold practically any valve you might want, as did DBTV in North Lane, Headingley ??.