[rontech]

When I was very young we had box in the living room containing a whole load of old radio components my father had been using back in the mid 1920's These fascinated me and I would play with them often. Looking back they would have been from a kit build radio of the 1920's period. There was a crystal in a holder but no cats whisker.

Also some valve bases designed to screw onto a wooden board, a couple of Ferranti inter valve transformers in bakelite cases, tuning condenser, a few ancient valves ( 4 and 5 pin ) and two devices in round bakelite case with knob and graduated scale Had the name "Polar Precision" on the back.

Anyway that set me on a life long interest in most of the things discussed on this site.