Repair and refurbish antique, vintage and classic:
- Radios
- Audio Equipment Including Stereos, Hi-fi’s, Amplifiers, Preamps, Receivers
- Record Players/Turntables/Phonographs (Limited Repairs on these Units)
- Guitar Amplifiers
—AS LONG AS YOUR UNIT USES VACUUM TUBES (Generally made before 1965).
Also:
- NO SOLID STATE UNITS unless the repair is something simple.
- No German radios or car radios.
- No Zenith Transoceanics or similar radios.
- No cabinet restoration.
- No wind up phonographs.
- (see below for referrals people who work on the above equipment)
- Numerous years repairing and refurbishing most makes and models including:
- 1920s battery sets
- 1930s-50s table, cathedral, tombstone and console radios
- Limited repairs on record players, phonos, turntables and changers
- All-American five radios
- Amps, preamps and receivers including high-end brands such as McIntosh, Marantz, Fisher, Scott, Harman Kardon, etc.
- Tube guitar amps
- Maximum customer service
- Your choice to make only necessary repairs or completely refurbish a unit
- Parts are billed at cost (no mark up).
- Proven, top-performing, high quality, reasonably-priced parts (No expensive “snake oil” parts unless you want them)
- Vacuum tube testing available for your spare tubes
- Addition of or conversion to blue tooth of radios or other equipment
- Kit assembly
- Located in Riverside, CA and serving all of Southern California and anywhere else via shipping
- Turnaround time varies according to workload (waiting list for consoles)
REPAIR REFERRALS:
- Solid-state radios, stereos Justin 909-806-0616 (Moreno Valley):
- Solid-state radios & stereos, record changers, German radios, car radios Joe 760-954-8060 (Monrovia):
- Wind-up phonograph repairs, Ontario Phonograph Works 1-909-984-9241
- Cabinet refinishing, Jim Augustino at 1-626-991-7843
- Board member of Southern California Antique Radio Society (SCARS)
- Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator AA6U
- Member American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
- Amateur Radio Licensing Class Instructor
IMPORTANT
DO NOT turn on any unit that has not been used in over 3-5 years! You could damage it beyond repair and/or start a fire. At the very least, it should have the power brought up very slowly with a variable transformer/Variac, or, ideally, the filter capacitors should be replaced before applying power. Also NEVER plug in a unit if the power cord is deteriorating!