A Man & His Machine

[Oxide Blu]

This a friend, a retired teached of electronics at a local technical high school.

His hobby is to design and build tube based electronics; amplifiers and radios. He also repairs very old tube radios.

A few days ago I was having coffee when he came in with his latest creation -- a tube AM radio -- in a plastic sandwich box.

The box is temporary, he is having a wooden box made for it.

For the folks that care about this kind of stuff:

Ricoh GRD3, ISO 400, f:1.9, 1/15-sec (+0.7EV), metering: pattern, no flash.
The RAW (DNG) was processed in ARC, then slid off into Silver Effects Pro.

 

[D upton-Hackett.]

An active mind never dulls with age.

 

[Don Libby]

Very cool!

 

[smokysun]

i like it a lot. in the doisneau tradition.

wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp

 

[s.agar]

Nice photo. I would have liked a tube amplifier photo as well. Please publish if you have any.

 

[Oxide Blu]

Thanks everyone.

Sorry, no pix of his amplifiers, yet. What immediately caught my attention about the radio was the seven 9v batteries -- they are wired in series to provide 63vdc of power! You can see them in the upper right corner of the box.