Antique Radio Cabinet Repair

If you spend hundreds of dollars restoring a vintage radio don t expect to recover that money by reselling the restored set.

Antique radio cabinet repair.

Services we offer complete repair and restoration services for vintage and antique electronic equipment with a primary emphasis on radios. The skill and tools required to service each of these two parts is so different that some technicians will only service the chassis and some cabinetmakers will only repair the cabinet. Most people don t even know what photofinish is or if their radio has it on it. Professional refinishing is also labor intensive.

Simply put photofinish is decorative work applied to the cabinet to dress it up. I am very fortunate to have them doing your cabinet repair restoration. I have paid anywhere from 400 to 800 to have a large wooden cabinet completely redone. One of the things that people need on radio cabinets is photofinish repair restoration.

Antique furniture and radio cabinet repair and refinishing. Finally i cut two pieces of scrap wood to clamp the repair drill holes in the wood and bolt them to the area needing repairs. For definition s sake a console radio is one that is considered a floor model and is like a piece of furniture. In order to eliminate the risk of further damage please do not plug in your radio until it has been serviced.

One is a technical challenge. Watkins restoration antique radio cabinet restoration and refinishing. Our technicians are trained to repair all brands of vintage radio from the early 1900 s to the late 1970 s from very rare and priceless antique units to the popular and more sentimental units. Whether it s a zenith rca philco admiral crosley airline ge or a foreign made model such as blaupunkt telefunken norelco and grundig we.

Cabinet cleaning touchup will be considered on a case by case basis. We cover the full range of repairs from simple tube replacement to chassis repair to complete chassis and cabinet restoration. For practical purposes the service on a vintage radio should be considered as two parts the chassis electronics and the cabinet. Radio repair service is available for most antique and vintage radios made in the united states during the 1920 s through the 1960 s.

In some cases the cabinet originally cost much more than the radio that was installed inside of it and today these cabinets are valued by antique furniture collectors regardless of what is inside of them. Old world antique restoration. If your radio s wooden cabinet needs refinishing that s an additional cost. All radio repairs come with a 6 month warranty that covers labor and material.

This site is your source for the repair of tube equipment radios amplifiers excluding tvs and auto radios.