Over the last few days I’ve gone through a box of old CB equipment I found in the garage a couple weeks ago.
Most of it either came from garage sales/flea markets or my grandfathers basement and has remained untouched in my garage for at least 5 years.
They were filthy and I also surely wasn’t going to wire any of these into my car so they got blown off, wiped down several times and years of grime scrubbed off. Those manuals look amazing though with a 72 or 73 publication date.
Most of these aren’t anything special, couple Radio Shack branded ones, a Midland one and one slick looking GE unit. It looked cool enough to me to warrant being disassembled, thoroughly cleaned and put back together.
It ended up cleaning up and decently well - the mic still has some garbage in it but I spent more time than I already planned cleaning it...
So when it was all said and done I had 4 functional radios and 1 that just squealed anytime a mic was plugged into it. I do absolutely love the look of that GE unit but have zero practical use for them.
These units are all to old to be of much practical use and only the GE seems to have any real value (~$60 on ebay) but this was fun and a decent excuse to use my new bench power supply.
If anyone has a burning desire or fetish for these old hunks of radio electronics let me know. Otherwise they’ll go up on FB marketplace as while I wouldn’t mind keeping that GE unit I have no use for it and would rather go full bore into HAM if I’m going to mount a radio in a vehicle.