Troop Entertainment Radios

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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Left-new aluminum front plate, new circuit in original box. Right- Converted and highly detailed replica set of 2016. Now going to a new home.  

Fully cleaned the old dirt and rust on iron removed, small pieces of wood fills the lost parts then patching up the damaged wood filler. Sand smooth and apply base color to observe any need for further work. Now the box is in one color and waiting for the wooden partitions, L shape aluminum wall,…
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Lucky to obtained this original box, as a request to produce the front plate and its partitions for an original box, but I have an improved replica from Otto Lorenz only. As most of the boxes been stripped down after the war, nothing inside, and cut a knob at the side for cable out., The…
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Both the original box and the new circuit mounted onto the laser cut front plate.  

Lucky when Fritz Knie saw my poorly made wooden pieces, he took measure of the unit, and sent me all the details of the wooden pieces. I asked the carpenter to make me these pieces and to make me a door too, As I love the old style work work to assemble a board by…
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Failed attempt. These wooden pieces look easy to copy, so tried to estimated the size by pics and cut out wooden pieces, the ‘finger’ block is quite difficult to make by my simple hand tools, but still in shape eventually. Put onto the door and its just not looking right. I don’t know the level…
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