Clock-Radio Space Station

I've always enjoyed taking things apart and reassembling them in (one hopes) working condition. Back in my Jr High years, Dad gave me a reel-to-reel tape recorder (3" reels). Guess he moved up to a dictaphone or something. I took it apart and got it back together and it lasted for years.

From my oldest brother, I inherited a 1950s General Electric Alarm Clock-Radio. I just found a picture of the clock part - I am whelmed with nostalgia.

The radio part (not shown) attached on the right side. When I got it, the radio attachment didn't work. After some investigation, I realized the tab with four metal strips on the radio side, that slid into a slot on the clock, was partially broken off, and by inserting something as simple as a piece of cardboard, the strips made contact and, voila, the radio and clock-alarm worked like new.

Shortly after fixing it, I came home and my older brother (not the one from whom I got the clock) had the shell open on the radio part, and was smashing the tubes into the guts, imagining rocket ships crash-landing.

Not the first or last thing of mine he would destroy like that. RIP both bros.

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