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Hate to be picky, but no radio would have a spring in it like that. The inductor coils are never wound up tight so they would suddenly uncoil like that.
SCOTTtheBADGER almost 12 years ago
Stupid radio!
Simon_Jester almost 12 years ago
Those grapes a little too sour for ya, Skip?
Kroykali almost 12 years ago
Hate to be picky, but no radio would have a spring in it like that. The inductor coils are never wound up tight so they would suddenly uncoil like that.
APersonOfInterest almost 12 years ago
When I was little and the world was big I odored a kit and built a small crystal radio. It even worked.
Kroykali almost 12 years ago
Dunno about the drug stores, but Radio Shack used to have tube testers.
Ushindi almost 12 years ago
Where I grew up, all the grocery stores also had tube checkers. Heck, even car radios, as well as TVs, had electron tubes then.
craigwestlake almost 12 years ago
The most common place for tube checkers was the local drug store. My first entry into electronics was as a radio & TV repairman in 1961…