Comments on: Natalie’s mid-century sofa http://retrorenovation.com/2009/08/26/natalies-mid-century-sofa/ Products and ideas to remodel your mid century home in authentic vintage style Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: adam richards http://retrorenovation.com/2009/08/26/natalies-mid-century-sofa/comment-page-1/#comment-58973 adam richards Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:53:33 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=16225#comment-58973 Love the couch (fabric not so much, but hey... at least it's original). Anyway, I think I know what is wrong with your record player. There are electronic components in your record player that go out of whack as they age, they're called capacitors. Though it could also be a vacuum tube, it's not as likely (tubes don't go bad very often). You need to find someone that works on old radios because they know how to safely replace the parts that have gone bad. Oh, and don't plug it in and turn it on until it's fixed... once these parts go bad and start buzzing, it's only a matter of time before they short circuit and smoke starts coming out of your record player (bad stuff, i've seen it happen and it makes it that much harder to repair with that kind of damage). If you have a music store in your area, the people there probably knows someone that fixes tube guitar amps and that person would likely be able to fix your record player. Love the couch (fabric not so much, but hey… at least it’s original). Anyway, I think I know what is wrong with your record player. There are electronic components in your record player that go out of whack as they age, they’re called capacitors. Though it could also be a vacuum tube, it’s not as likely (tubes don’t go bad very often). You need to find someone that works on old radios because they know how to safely replace the parts that have gone bad. Oh, and don’t plug it in and turn it on until it’s fixed… once these parts go bad and start buzzing, it’s only a matter of time before they short circuit and smoke starts coming out of your record player (bad stuff, i’ve seen it happen and it makes it that much harder to repair with that kind of damage). If you have a music store in your area, the people there probably knows someone that fixes tube guitar amps and that person would likely be able to fix your record player.

]]> By: pam kueber http://retrorenovation.com/2009/08/26/natalies-mid-century-sofa/comment-page-1/#comment-40234 pam kueber Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:57:32 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=16225#comment-40234 St. Chris, this did make loveseats - I think they called them apartment sofas. Just very very hard to find sets. These things were super duper expensive in their day. Somewhere on the blog I did a calculation based on an old price list and then applying the CPI. A "nice" sofa back in the day would have cost the equivalent of $4,000-$5,000 today, as I recall. This behemoth -- must have been much much more. St. Chris, this did make loveseats – I think they called them apartment sofas. Just very very hard to find sets. These things were super duper expensive in their day. Somewhere on the blog I did a calculation based on an old price list and then applying the CPI. A “nice” sofa back in the day would have cost the equivalent of $4,000-$5,000 today, as I recall. This behemoth — must have been much much more.

]]> By: St. Christopher http://retrorenovation.com/2009/08/26/natalies-mid-century-sofa/comment-page-1/#comment-40230 St. Christopher Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:14 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=16225#comment-40230 That is a cRaZy cool couch! Very unique, even more than the fact that it's 54 years old. How's the cushion material? I had dragged a couch and chair out of a basement mid summer a few years ago from an estate sale thinking I might "restore" it. Sad to say it ended up out in the alley after dragging it once again up out of a basement where I had been storing it. It was just too far gone. What I really want is a set like this in a sofa AND loveseat. Seems like they didn't really do loveseats back then. Anyway, sweet find and at a GREAT price! Ain't it just grand when all the appropriate gods smile upon you while at the same time the stars find the time to line up "just so"? That is a cRaZy cool couch! Very unique, even more than the fact that it’s 54 years old. How’s the cushion material? I had dragged a couch and chair out of a basement mid summer a few years ago from an estate sale thinking I might “restore” it. Sad to say it ended up out in the alley after dragging it once again up out of a basement where I had been storing it. It was just too far gone. What I really want is a set like this in a sofa AND loveseat. Seems like they didn’t really do loveseats back then.

Anyway, sweet find and at a GREAT price! Ain’t it just grand when all the appropriate gods smile upon you while at the same time the stars find the time to line up “just so”?

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