Month: July 2020

This is a nice user friendly AM radio from the mid-50s. It has a built in frame aerial which means you can use it anywhere in the house. It’s a simplified chassis compared to the big PE80 that I did previously. Simple 5 valve design, single ended class-A audio amplifier. Controls are easy to use, four knobs with on-off/tone, volume, tuning and band. It does LW, MW and two short wave bands, and works really well. Restoration wise, there wasn’t much wrong with the electronics, just the usual replacement of […]

This device was purchased by a friend and passed to be for a quick safely check. I don’t really know if these devices provide any benefit to the user, but their workings are quite interesting. The general idea of the device is to generate a high voltage at a high frequency at very low current to cause stimulation of nerve endings. Note that the frequency is so high that muscles do not react. The current limiting device is a glass tube filled with a gas that will glow violet when […]

I was really lucky to be given one of these beauties. It a high end radio from the mid 1950s, with lots of SW bands, a front-end RF amplifier (most designs I’ve seen so far don’t use one) Push-Pull audio output valves, a magic eye tuning indicator and a big 10″ speaker. I’m going to take my time with this one, it’s a bit of a beast and I want to enjoy restoring it as much as I’ll enjoy using it. Like previous PYE designs, the chassis it quiet tidy, […]