Also called: Vintage Radio Technician, Gramophone Restorer
Repairs tube radios, wind-up phonographs and old record players so they work again while keeping their original look.
A customer brings in great-grandma’s 1930s radio. The restorer replaces dried-out capacitors, tests tubes, realigns the dial, and refinishes the wooden cabinet. Another day they rebuild the spring motor of a 1910s wind-up Victrola so it plays at the right speed.
Many work part-time or alongside other repair work.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 0.5 years after high school. Electronics training plus self-study of old circuits.
Ways in: Self-taught, Apprenticeship. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology (2-year).
Shrinking. Small, aging collector market.
Low risk for 10 years. Old schematics are online, but soldering, refinishing and adjusting stay human work.
Classes: Electronics CTE class, Physics, Woodshop.
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