This one was in the attic for 45 years! Plugged it in, doesn't work, and after checking Ebay and finding that selling it for parts I'd only get $50 MAXIMUM (the shipping, meanwhile, is over $100!) I decided to heck with it and began stripping it apart. I've sold heavy stuff on Ebay, and it's quite annoying to ship. $50 ain't worth the effort!
This is the entire internal mechanism. It's got some nice vacuum tubes and mounts, so those I'll remove and sell them (can get some decent money for those). But I also see lots of old-style electronics. Plenty of silver-plated bits I spied, along with the silver parts contained in the switches. But there are other parts I'm not certain of, since I've never dismantled such an old machine. Are all those grey components (such as the ones marked 'RIVER') tube capacitors? Are the green ones resistors? I found a few gray components that are CLEARLY resistors, as they have the banding. But the others I'm not sure of at all.
I'd appreciate input on what could be recovered from this machine, since I'm simply not familiar with what went into electronics components from this long ago.
This is the entire internal mechanism. It's got some nice vacuum tubes and mounts, so those I'll remove and sell them (can get some decent money for those). But I also see lots of old-style electronics. Plenty of silver-plated bits I spied, along with the silver parts contained in the switches. But there are other parts I'm not certain of, since I've never dismantled such an old machine. Are all those grey components (such as the ones marked 'RIVER') tube capacitors? Are the green ones resistors? I found a few gray components that are CLEARLY resistors, as they have the banding. But the others I'm not sure of at all.
I'd appreciate input on what could be recovered from this machine, since I'm simply not familiar with what went into electronics components from this long ago.
