[MurphyNut]

This was a very easy success story as the said radio was given to me, this was about 6 years ago, I had a call at the door and there stood an elderly man holding the Ferranti.
It clicked after a while that I had actually worked with him some years earlier but not seen him since he retired.
Amazingly he had remembered I collected such things and had tracked me down, he offered me the set saying it didn’t work and could do what I wanted with it.
I plugged it in and true to his word it didn’t do much apart from light up. I knew even less about fixing radios than I do now but I guessed it might be a valve. I have a large tin with many smaller 1950’s valves in, so I went through replacing each one in turn with the same number. Then switching the set on after each swap to see if it would do anything.
I eventually hit the jackpot! The radio worked and really well too, in fact much better than I ever thought it would, FM was patricianly good no hiss and strong undistorted sound.
The radio is in very good cosmetic condition in and out looking as if it’s spent all its life in a dry environment.
This Radio gets used often and now lives in the summer house and looks happy sitting in the corner. It contains a large sized speaker and produces very nice sound quality, especially evident on Radio 3 with classical music.
As its working so well (there isn’t even the slightest suggestion of a hum) I’ve decided not to bother doing anything to it.
Lovely radio, (cat likes it too) they aren’t rare and often crop up on eBay and there never seems to be much interest in them, there was even the radiogram version advertised recently. (If only I had the space!)
Underrate? I think so.