KLH vintage radio mod.............
Polkaguy58
Posts: 352
This summer, as I was out on the bike, I stumbled onto another KLH Model 1 radio at a tag sale for 20 bucks.
It looked like it belonged to a heavy smoker and all, but I just love them.
I took it apart, reconditioned the cabinet and cleaned the electronics, but it ended up not working very well.
It wasn't worth sinking money into, so I decided to make myself a mirror image extra speaker for my other Model 1.
I used the vintage knobs to replace the guitar knobs that were on my radio, then beat feet to JoAnne's fabrics for some brown speaker cloth.
I gutted the radio of it's electronics and capped off all the holes left behind.
I then reassembled the radio and place it up on the shelf across from my Model 1.
They have an extra speaker jack in the back, so I made a speaker cable with an RCA end and used the old antenna terminals to hook up the new speaker.
It sounds great !
It looked like it belonged to a heavy smoker and all, but I just love them.
I took it apart, reconditioned the cabinet and cleaned the electronics, but it ended up not working very well.
It wasn't worth sinking money into, so I decided to make myself a mirror image extra speaker for my other Model 1.
I used the vintage knobs to replace the guitar knobs that were on my radio, then beat feet to JoAnne's fabrics for some brown speaker cloth.
I gutted the radio of it's electronics and capped off all the holes left behind.
I then reassembled the radio and place it up on the shelf across from my Model 1.
They have an extra speaker jack in the back, so I made a speaker cable with an RCA end and used the old antenna terminals to hook up the new speaker.
It sounds great !
Comments
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hmmm... that looks like a KLH 21 radio to me.
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You're correct, I should wait until my second coffee before I start typing.
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That's a neat project.
Also, a cool photo of the dude concentrating on levitating/spinning up a bar stool.I disabled signatures. -
That's a neat project.
Also, a cool photo of the dude concentrating on levitating/spinning up a bar stool.
I thought it was nice of him to take a picture while sitting on his bed and not make us have to look at his socks like certain people do. *AHEM* -
Actually, that's my guitar workbench.
The rug pad is for the guitars to lay on, but my cat thinks it's her personal bed.
Now that I'm retired............I guess it is. -
