TOM WALKER wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>I remember both a construction article and ads selling commercial
RJT>replaceme
RJT>for those.  Probably more trouble than I'd want to go through, 
RJT>though.  I
RJT>some car radios for a while,  and it was a real PITA trying to
RJT>deal with th
RJT>but the one time the guy came up with a pile of real old tube
RJT>stuff I just
RJT>to pass on them,  wasn't worth what he was willing to pay.

 TW>  Seems to me that I also have seen articles on how to make an
 TW> Electronic  Vibrator replacing the contacts with solid state
 TW> switches.
 TW> I don't expect much use for it though except the Purist of the
 TW> Purists.

Actually a real purist would want the original part -- you do get a rather
unique sound with those -- rather than any silent substitute.  I do know
about purists,  we have some *serious* antique car buffs that meet in this
area every fall,  and have a museum not too far up the road from me.

 TW> There are peopel making Stock looking Car Radios for the old car 
 TW> Collector that are all solid state. Some of that stuff though is 
 TW> in the Class that "IF you have to Ask, you cannot Afford it"

Yep.

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