Anyone here into vintage radio?

[Sirbendy]

Strange one to ask, I know...

I've come into posession of an old wooden cased radio...3 bakelite knobs, 6 valves, cloth speaker, seen the world a bit it's fair to say...

We've been doing a house clearance of my nans..and as such I now have some excellent 60+ year old wood furniture, a wooden rocking chair of the same age in need of reupholstering, and this...

It was my grandads, not been run in..a good 20 years. I popped in a fuse, powered it up while stood with a fire extinguisher and waited...

it crackled..hissed, crackled, hissed..louder and louder..tried the frequency knob, no stations..tuner round and round, nothing...then all of a sudden it went silent.

All the valves are glowing merrily, no sound output. Sigh..so now I'm trying to find any source of help and info I can for it. I know it's a GM Electric "Strad", yet all I can find is info on their 40's bakelite models etc, but nothing wooden cased and "war era" or just after..

Anyone out there got any ideas as to a good place to start looking for help and advice? I'd quite like to get it running again for the retro factor, plus I think it gives a much more mellow sound than "modern" radios..it'd look quite nice in the living room...

[nawbus]

I had my old Bush DAC 90 valve radio repaired by this company who are near Chester. They did a good job, it still works and wasn't excessively expensive.
Not sure if they still do repairs, but worth dropping them a line.
Or try the Vintage Amp Doctor.

[brookesandrew]

This might be a good place to start:

British Vintage Wireless Society British Vintage Wireless Society