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This topic has 11 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 24 May 2021 at 20:05 by robin coleman.

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23 May 2021 at 18:41 #546634
robin coleman
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My name is Robin I am from Hampshire and restore old valve radios and all sorts of rusty machines
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23 May 2021 at 18:41 #41080
robin coleman
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23 May 2021 at 19:03 #546642
David George 1
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Hi Robin. Welcome to the forum. It looks like you could be very usefull on here and of you need any info just ask as well.

David
23 May 2021 at 19:18 #546646
old mart
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Hi, Robin, welcome to the forum. Until the early 60's we had a PYE radio with pretuned push buttons for some of the popular stations on medium and long wave. I have looked through dozens of pictures of PYE radios on the internet and have never seen the one we had at home. It caught fire in about 1962 and was dumped.
23 May 2021 at 19:57 #546652
robin coleman
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Old mart it could be a pye 3023 butpyeand Phillip's did early auto tune radios with Bowden cable controls and gears .no dobt using some of there sometimes over engineered designs they used in the war.i have a pultra lathe which makes a few bits and peices.

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Robin
23 May 2021 at 21:01 #546667
Harry Wilkes
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Welcome to the forum

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23 May 2021 at 21:03 #546668
old mart
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The nearest PYE radio I have been able to find a picture of which bears a resemblance and has push buttons is the G10 of 1948 vintage. Our one had a PYE logo on the front but not the big type covering the speaker. It was a superhet, but that was common. Not every one listed has a photo unfortunately.

It amazes me just how many style variations there were over the years, and PYE was only one of many manufacturers.
23 May 2021 at 21:40 #546680
robin coleman
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I collect mainly Murphy but have the famous philco peoples set which looks like the front of a car and a civillian set.
23 May 2021 at 23:03 #546692
noel shelley
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Welcome to the party Robin. As a teenager I built a communications receiver with 6 or 7 valves and worked for Pye Electric in 1970. Best wishes Noel
24 May 2021 at 14:57 #546829
old mart
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If you ever get an opportunity to visit the museum at Amberley, West Sussex, they have some old radios amongst their collections, well worth a visit.
24 May 2021 at 15:04 #546833
Howard Lewis
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Welcome!

Folk on here have all sorts of backgrounds and other interests, co cover a VAST range of knowledge. And they can usually point you in a direction where you can gain even more knowledge on a specific subject, machine or process.

It will be a benefit if you can find a local Model Engineering Club and join.

Howard
24 May 2021 at 20:05 #546906
robin coleman
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I have yet to visit the amberly museum.my late uncle worked as a spitfire and hurricane engineer during the war and I made a few bits on his old dalton lathe he purchased in a military surplus auction after the war along with the ex radar equipment which I later my my first telivision out of at the age of 12.i will later join a club but am reading the begginers lathe by turbul cain.
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