I was able to hit a town wide yard sale, and was able to fill the truck, in about an hour, so lets go and check out this weekends haul.
one mans junk is another mans treasure…
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There are shops that restore old radios. They'd pay you for it
Nice if you can get the old Silvertone multi-band radio going. I wonder if this was made before Sears bought Silvertone. You have power, light, at least two tubes lit, sound from speaker. Tuner usually works with a string & pulley, linked to the tuner indicator up front. I'd get it repaired.
Old English will help bring back that wood grain
By chance do you still have the roadrunner and coyote poster? If so would you sell it ?
The radio brings back memories of being out on the farm listening to baseball games. I think it was an old Sears and spend a buck.
WoW is that ever cool !!! Vintage tube Radio ! 👍👍👍
Dial band is broken
If you don't know how it works, read a book on it, just playing with it like the previous owner will just lead to frustration and you will give up on it.
Ground it and it will come in a lot better.
Volume, tone, dial, and station. Tone goes from bass to treble.
Without an antenna or a ground, all it will do is hum.
This is not your average radio, you have to wait for the tubes to warm up first and replace any that don't light up. You can get them on eBay or Amazon or a distributor of radio tubes.
The straight wire out of the back of the is the ground. You need to connect it outside to a piece of steel pounded into your lawn or yard. It looks like a radio from the '30s or '40s. My uncle had one on the wood floor and you could hear it in the whole house, the floor amplified the sound.
That is a great old radio to restore, and hang the Roadrunner and the Coyote on the wall so everyone can see it, not on a table in your VW.
I used to fix these old radios. This is likely around vintage 1932-1936 or earlier. The tubes have date codes but may have been replaced a few times. Some inner parts like caps and resistors may also have date codes. The electrolytic caps are likely dead and need replacement. They are electrolyte-filled and may become live again by shaking and then connecting them to a small reverse voltage for a few minutes. Then back normal polarity but only a slowly increasing to working voltage, else they will short. It is very hard to get some of the old tubes but some are still made. The hole you were poking at is a tuning eye. It will give a green pattern which will maximize when the station is correctly on the wave. It is one of the vacuum tubes.