Just found a whole blog about old radio repair from a guy at a yard sale

I was at a yard sale in Boise last Saturday looking for a lamp. This older guy had a table full of old radios and I asked about one. He spent twenty minutes telling me how to fix a specific hum in tube radios from the 50s, something about replacing filter caps. He wrote down a web address on a scrap of paper, said 'check this, I put it all up there.' It's his personal blog, no ads, just step by step guides with his own photos. He's been posting since 2009 and it's never shown up in any search I've done for radio stuff before. It's a total goldmine of info you'd only find by talking to someone. Has anyone else stumbled on a niche site like this just from a random chat?

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fionak632mo ago

My uncle in Tacoma gave me a handwritten notebook from a retired clockmaker he knew. It had like 80 pages of pencil sketches on fixing antique wind-up alarm clocks, stuff about mainspring tension I've never seen online. I still use it.

leo5052mo ago

Any chance you'd ever scan and share that notebook online? That kind of hands-on knowledge is gold.

noah_palmer4212d ago

80 pages of mainspring tension sketches from some Tacoma clock wizard sounds like a legit treasure, not just some YouTube tutorial that cuts off at the good part. @leo505 you are brave for even suggesting a scan, half the people here would probably try to sell that thing on eBay for 500 bucks before the ink dried. I bet that notebook has saved you from throwing at least three clocks out a window just this year.