Eleven Transistor (GE Transistor Radio, 1966) - Works in Progress - Blender Artists Community
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I got me a GE transistor radio from 1966 a couple weeks ago at an estate sale. 50 cents… plus $6 to order a replacement battery holder so I wasn’t overdriving it to death with a battery that physically fit but was 1 1/2 times the voltage. Of course, why does a person really get a transistor radio from 1966? To listen to? Of course not! Terrestrial radio’s bland and awful even through a speaker from '66. Nope! To model it, of course! This was a relatively easy model, as models go. The body of
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Vintage Global 6 Transistor Radio, Model GR-711, AM Band Only
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Transistor 8 66R48 Radio Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries
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Taking the transistor mainstream with music on the go - Marketplace
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Transistor radios delivered the soundtrack of our lives in the summer of 1966 – Daily Breeze
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Collecting Variants
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Masterwork Solid State - Eight Transistor Radio Columbia Records
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The California Lumber Merchant - August 1966 by 526 Media Group - Issuu
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Eleven Transistor (GE Transistor Radio, 1966) - Works in Progress - Blender Artists Community
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Vintage General Transistor Radio, Model C-59, AM-SW Bands,…
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Taking the transistor mainstream with music on the go - Marketplace