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Thread Number: 44746
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Northern Midge Electric Radio |
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| Post# 464866 7/28/2023 at 00:56 (286 days old) by Hornet (Canada) | ||
I finally got a chance to do some work on my radio, had this radio for years .
I found this little jem at a second hand store for $6.00 , needed a new tube but is now working and restored. I do believe it is a 1952 +/- Northern Midge Electric. Enjoy the pics! | ||
| Post# 464874 , Reply# 1 7/28/2023 at 12:34 (285 days old) by texaskirbyguy (Plano, TX) | ||
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What a STEAL for only 6 bucks!! Very cute radio. The one who priced it must have thought it was just a newer Chinesium retro replica.. Glad it was an easy fix and hope you enjoy it for a long time to come. | ||
| Post# 464902 , Reply# 2 7/29/2023 at 07:52 (285 days old) by funvacfan (Canada) | ||
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| Post# 464908 , Reply# 3 7/29/2023 at 09:59 (285 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 465392 , Reply# 4 8/20/2023 at 01:53 (263 days old) by Hornet (Canada) | ||
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Thank guys I will enjoy this radio for many years.
It took me a long time to figure out how I wanted to paint this radio so it would look cool, so in the end I went with raspberry for the main body with a satin black front face then I put 24 k gold leaf into the speaker grooves followed by hand painting the edges in white then used brilliant gold paint and hand painted the lettering on the logo then used a traditional gold paint for the dial with a final coat of clear to finish everything up. It was a fun restoration now have to find a another antique to restore. | ||
| Post# 465480 , Reply# 5 8/23/2023 at 18:40 (259 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I love old radios. I've got two of them now, a Philco AM radio that's kind of a plain jane affair, and a German Telefunken (love the name) that's AM (labeled MW), FM, and shortwave and has a beautiful honey colored wood cabinet.
We had the coolest Zenith clock radio from the early '50s. It stayed in my room for a long time, until I got an AM/FM clock radio with a digital clock in the mid '70s. I know I saw the Zenith as recently as the mid/late '90s. No idea what became of it; however, I did find a Web site (below) with pictures of one just like it. The main difference between that one and the one we had was it had a couple of little triangular icons on the dial to indicate the Civil Defense frequencies. Cold war design at its finest. CLICK HERE TO GO TO human's LINK | ||
| Post# 465990 , Reply# 8 9/9/2023 at 10:26 (243 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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AM Stereo
AM stereo came in around the end of the '70s. I remember a couple of the AM stations where I grew up started broadcasting in stereo in the early '80s, but it was kind of a moot point because nobody had an AM stereo receiver. I remember thinking at the time, who wants to listen to static in stereo? And of course, in the '90s, most AM stations had switched their format to news/sports/propaganda talk, with little or no music being played, so what was the point?
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