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The unit is plug in 220v AC and the DC is cut off manually by the switch. Switched on the Power/Volume. Do note the selector switch starts from FM, first click AM and MP3 on third click. Bluetooth didn’t show, as the file is in my phone, when the Memory stick been removed, it will…
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The mounting of switches and circuit on my WR1/P. Took me a while to figure out how to mount all the required switches onto the panel, as the steel front panel is huge and heavy, and the big box is difficult to work. The solution is to link two parts by long wires with connecter…
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The WR1 box was sitting at the corner since the battery chambers installed. No motivation and time to build the front plate from scratch. Not until an original front plate available in Italy, and my friend P Acerbis pick it up and strip it down to reduce weight before sent to me. Sadly cancer took…
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Spare some time to restore the battery chambers. There are eight pieces in more than two sets of chamber, but only can assembled one set according to the hinges positions. Actually the matching set was sent to Egon, but he sent it back after he found a box with chambers. Without this set, the restoration…
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Hard to find items sometimes pops up in pile. Look at these Philips Rudi WR1/P radios for sale in whole batch. Asked for €6K, way too high and mo room to storage. But still happy to know its survived decades after the war. Anyone bought it do sell me some small parts.

The pivotal person to spark this project is Egon Kraaz, he made the resin parts from an original WR1 years earlier. And found two original WR1 boxes, and gave me one. I have a FM, MP3/Bluetooth circuit with extra long wires on switches for large WR1 panel. Also have the label set and dial from…
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When I bought a panel and a d2 door a huge lot of relic came together, total weight reached 22kg. The metal parts of the WR1 was came with a lot of headsets earpieces, throatmic speech capsules and switches and some corroded d2 parts mixed with sand. Didn’t expected these parts became the sources of my…
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More leather stitching works on headbands and neckbands. Then Panzer headset, throatmic and Dfh.a all need leather sleeves. Mass production factory do have machines to handle it. But all I have are my hands and time . Average 30 mins per neckband and Dfh.a headbands. But Pz headbands needs do needs 40mins plus provided that…
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One more self purchase map marking pen set by Siemens, came with original box.  

The Taktik Eberhard Faber Taktik-Etui Nr. 542 A privat purchase map marking pen set, designed for usage within the Wehrmacht (Spezial-Erzeugnisse für die Wehrmacht). The pouch itself is designed to be worn on the belt or to be attached to a button on the uniform, the pouch is manufactured from high quality brown coloured leather.…
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