About Myself

Hello and thank you for taking time to read what I have to say.

I am keith and situated in Bradford West Yorkshire and I have been involved with radio repairing since before I left school in 1960. At 14 I had a Saturday job at the local village electrical shop where amongst other things it was my job to clean radios out before they were attended to by the boss.

I can remember the first radio dial I decided to clean with a damp cloth (oh dear) I wiped it clean, I had not been told about the dangers of screen printed dials which had spent years in unfavorable conditions! However we did have a scrap radio in the radio graveyard above the workshop, which we retrieved a good dial from. At that time, I remember there were probably about 60 to 80 radios up there which were uneconomical to repair, or spares were not available (nothings changed there - except now it's TVs & Videos!!).

We decided one Saturday to clear away the rubbish sets, and as the tip was literally across the road behind the school I was told to get the wheel barrow and take the radios to the tip a few at a time and get rid of them! I took great delight in hurling bricks at them and I must have destroyed probably 20 round Ekcos of various models (you couldn't give them away at that time) though there was a good second hand market in used radios.

As radios faded into the background my work was repairing TVs and eventually Videos, but I have never lost my love of radios and have a very large collection from Pye MMs to 1970s novelty radios, talk about being obsessed, I have about 2000!!

I do enjoy repairing valve radios (so if you've not fallen asleep reading this 'CV'), I will gladly take on whatever you have to repair, my charges are sensible and I think I know what I'm doing.