TECLA Thirty
Thomas E. Clark Co.
Early wireless age crystal set with code on label.
This webpage is for Crystal Radio enthusiasts, both users and
collectors.
Some pictures of crystal radios are on display below the Links.
Click on the titles below to jump to the
following pages:
Headphone
Museum
Gallery Pictures of
collectible headphones from my collection. Several pages of close
up photos of vintage headphones. Over 100 different headphone
pictured here.
Headphone Heaven (Headphones for Sale)
Vintage headphones for crystal set use or just for
collecting. Several new sets listed including Brandes,
Baldwin, and Western Electric.
Vintage
and
Crystal Radios for sale Some quality
homebrews and reproductions. Just added a couple of vintage
car radios here.
1920's Radio Parts, Vacuum Tubes, and Test Equipment Tuning condensers, coils, tube sockets, etc. Build your own battery tube regenerative radio, plus various test equipment such as soldering irons, etc.
BOOKS
And Vintage Radio Magazines for Sale Vintage radio
repair, and now with some vintage Radio News and related
magazines.
WD-11
Substitution Project Page This page shows
construction of tubes utilizing subminiature 5676 and other tubes
to use in place of a WD-11
Antique
and
Vintage
Tools for Sale
New Page of some antique tools I have collected over the years and
need to part with now. Draw knives, Depth marking gauges, spiral
push drills etc.
Vintage and Collectible Knives for sale
Selling off a longtime collection of vintage and collectible
knives, mostly pocket knives, some rare and antique.
Vintage
Compact Binoculars for sale
These are high quality compact binoculars, first designed by
Nippon Kogaku Company in Japan (later renamed Nikon). The
design from the 1920's was produced for many decades, then
abandoned, but Nikon put them back in to production recently
and sells them for $250 to $300. Several companies made them
in Japan and these have been refurbished, cleaned, and the
images aligned for proper visual optics, at a fraction of
the price of a new pair of Nikon Mikron binoculars.
My
Big Fat Greek Vacation
We finally took a real vacation in August of 2009 and this is a
little blog about our holiday there, plus have recently added
subsequent family events, water skiing, surfing, and my daughter's
wedding in May 2011.
Steampunk Headphones Project Page Modify vintage headphones to use on modern audio devices.
LINKS
A page of links to related radio sites including my favorite
crystal radio sites.
Ugh,
yet another project. Being a sucker for a classic that needs some
TLC, I bought a little 15 foot Glastron boat like the James Bond
chase boat in Live and Let Die. It needs a lot of work, but will be
a zippy little ride when it is done. 
A Tale of Two Tube Amps This is a page on the making of a couple of stereo tube amps that I am building for special friends and relatives. One uses a single ended 12AX7, 6V6, 5Y3G design, and the other is a 7 tube push pull design using 6SN7, VT-25, and 5U4G tubes.
My Dog
Belle
This is just a fun page about our dog Belle, and friends. Sort of
a Dog Blog. She is no match for Marley in the recent hit novel,
but still a lot of fun. April 2010 added a couple of photos of her
litter of mutt puppies, and their times with us.
Double
Doggie House Project The dogs
just got a dog house makeover from the old metal wire crates to
luxury 2 bedroom apartment!
Nixie Tube Clock Project Slightly outside of my usual interests, but am documenting this fun project building an old fashioned Nixie clock.
New
Hobby, Pen Making
Oh No, another new hobby. Just took up pen turning, a fun and
inexpensive hobby with rewarding results.
Western Electric 509W Restoration Project This page shows the steps in cleaning up a nice vintage pair of Western Electric 509W headphones.
Make
your Own Root Beer This is a
page on fermenting your own home brewed root beer.
Heathkit CR-1 and Miller 595 Page This page shows the circuit of the famous Heathkit CR-1 and Miller 565 / 595 crystal radios and a project in progress to recreate these sets with parts available today.
Headphone Repair Page This page will be expanded to include remagnetizing headphone magnets, replacing pin tips, cord splicing etc. Illustrated to help you do it yourself.
Jackson
Bell
Radios
These are some of my other radios on display. Jackson Bell
made elegant figural cathedral radios in the early 1930's. These
have nothing to do with crystal sets but I like them anyway.
Build A Crystal Radio or a 1 Tube Amplifier This page has the circuit diagram for building a simple crystal radio and a 1 tube amplifier that can be used to drive a horn speaker or amplify weak signals for headphones. Includes a schematic plus a component diagram for easy assembly. The crystal radio Plans are easy enough to use for a Science Fair project or a scout project.
Resource Page Links and addresses/phone numbers of the parts suppliers I use to obtain parts. Parts that I don't have can be found at one of these sites.
These are pictures of items from my collection of crystal radios
and other early radio items. Items on this page are for display.
Click on the above line marked "Crystal radios for sale" or others
to see items for sale.
You can click on a few selected pictures for larger photo and
click "back" to return.
Most of the below sets can be seen in Maurice Seivers book
"Crystal Clear", Volumes 1 and 2.
Westinghouse Aeriola Jr.
This is one of my favorite sets. Circa 1922, a good quality
crystal set with a two mineral Perikon detector. The little
brother of the Aeriola Sr. one tube radio.
WECCO GEM
WECCO GEM crystal set
Simple slider and coil construction, variable inductance, no
capacitor.
JUBILEE
Jubilee Crystal Set made in Omaha Nebraska, mid 1920's.
Another coil and slide tuned crystal set. Several sets of
headphones can plug into this radio.
Click on icon to calculate shipping charges via US Mail from my zipcode of 23320
Mounted Argentiferous Galena Crystals
These are excellent quality galena detector crystals mounted in
Wood's Metal for a 7/16 inch diameter mounted crystal. Made with
fine crystalline argentiferous galena that is the best "rock" I
have ever used. 3 for $15
includes shipping within the US by first class for crystals only.
If you have bought crystals from other sources you may be
disappointed with their performance. Not these! They work great
and 100% of buyers have been thrilled with the results.
Mount
Your Own Crystals Click for instructions.
This page is an illustrated instruction page for mounting your own
minerals using materials similar to those shown above.
MRL Handbooks.
These handbooks were kindly supplied to me by MRL. They are $3
each.
HB-3 tells all about crystal detectors, including various minerals
and modern diodes.
HB-17 is sold out.
You can reach MRL on the web at http://www.modernradiolabs.com
Phil's Old
Radios Nice general radio website with a
great crystal radio project for broadcast and shortwave reception.
The
Analog Dial Very informative website with
some detailed descriptions of crystal and tube radio projects plus
a great bio on Elmer Osterhoudt founder of Modern Radio Labs (MRL)
Xtal Set Society This site used to be a supplier for parts but the store has closed and only minimal information remains.
Skywaves
Al
Klase's
site
that
has
some
useful
schematics
and
crystal
radio
building
projects
including a shortwave crystal set.
Greg Farmer's Crystal Radios Great site with a beautiful collection of crystal radios and related early radios.
Ben Tongue's Crystal Radio Website
This website had valuable details on crystal radio reception,
impedance matching, and even schematics for building impedance
determination equipment for comparing headphones of different
impedances.
Peebles
Originals This is Mike Peebles website with
information about Crystal Radio, Tube & amp; Transistor Radio,
Parts, Plans, Kits and other Items associated with "Nostalgic
Radio Building". Sadly, Mike has passed away so the site may not
be available much longer.
Lance's Crystal Radio Website Lance Borden's Crystal Radio Webapge with plans and kits for sale.
John's Radio Pages A great resource that has details about the early Miller high fidelity tuners.
Stay Tuned Take this hot link to a related page by a colleague who specialized in sound powered equipment. It has been recently expanded with dozens of crystal radio construction plans. This site is a MUST SEE!
Jim Frederick's Crystal Radio Page This page has plans and kits to buy such as the high tech Hobbydyne crystal radio, tell Jim I sent you.
Play
Things of Past Great source for all
sorts of vintage radio replacement parts including tubes, all
types of transformers, knobs, dials, glass, belts, variable
capacitors, coils and more. I can't think of anything not
available here for an old radio and at great prices.
WA6OTP Great
website with pages of crystal radios plus many of the author's
hobbies and building projects. An amazing scope of interest and
talent.
Dave's
Homemade Radios Archived version of Dave
Schmarder's radio webpage with loads of projects and schematics.
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Radio Museum A website dealing with all aspects of antique radios including display photos and schematic daigrams for antique radio enthusiasts, click on the icon above to jump to the Radiomuseum.
Dick Korf''s Handcrafted Detector Stand threepalms13@gmail.com
Click this Email to Dick to order this item
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