I noticed a little beauty up for sale at a local auction recently;
A Bang & Olufsen Master 39K in what seemed to be perfect condition.
The thought of bidding on it soon occured to me but I somehow managed to resist
the temptation. Though not quite as good looking as this particular one, I have a
similar set in my collection already that I am really looking forward to restoring.
I've restored several basket cases in my time and it was always great fun and
very rewarding but still, it would be nice to restore a set that obviously
has been cared for to an extreme extent all of its life.
Anyway, it went to a new danish owner at a more than fair price.
A couple of days after the auction ended, I was contacted by the new owner.
He asked if I thought the radio would be safe to power up and/or which things
to check before eventually doing so.
I gave him a couple of ideas regarding what to check and how but partly
because the radio was in a showroom geographically much closer to me than
him and partly because the new owner was a bit afraid of ruining something, we
agreed that I went to the showroom and picked up the radio, brought it with me home
and gave it a good check. That would also spare the poor thing from a potentially
very dangerous trip with a courier across the country.
I was - and still am - extremely busy these days so the radio stood untouched a
couple of weeks in my humble repairshop before I could set aside time for it.
Now, the time has come, even if work on this set as well as my reporting back here
may be a little on-and-off. It's summer in Denmark, we have a heat-wave and there
are so many other things to do but I probably won't be able to leave this
wonderful thing alone.
Martin
