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Well, if nothing else, your house won't blow away.....
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haha. actully i dont live there anymore, lost my trailer to a major storm last sunner that took half the roof off with it. im in the prosess of buying a house right now.
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In that case, I retract my previous statement.... :para:
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haha. i have many many more in storage. one day ill dig them out bring them to south fl, and post them here. i have some stuff you would prolly really appretiate. like a 1940s roundie tube tabletop tv that actully works!
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Hey! Can I make this a sticky like on AK? I always liked the "Show us your 'X' " threads. I used to have a Maggie just like picture 4, it was awesome but I ran out of room for it. I'll have to post some pictures of my Motorola console......god I love that thing.....:drool:
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maybe. but im banned there. so sadley id never get to see it :(
btw with a name like zenithfan1, im shure you have some cool stuff in your stash! post some pics!! lets see them!! |
No, it would stick here, I was only comparing it to there. And yes, I have some cool stuff kicking around. Too bad my tv page is broken at the moment or you could see some of it. I'll post some pics and fix the site when I'm not broke lol. I went ahead and stickied it, hope that's cool.....
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hell i dont care man. rock on dude!
and yeah i tried to look at your tv page, sucks that it aint working. i was looking forward to seeing your stash |
hmmm.. power to stick threads, your name is slanted.. you must be a mod here ey? too bad man, that means we cant be friends. only ememies now! :D just kidding. so how many old tvs you got? and do you have any of those cobra-matics? (i love those)
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:banana:Somebody here loves Magnavox consoles!! Beautiful sets! I like your tv radio phono too!:thmbsp::yes:
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yeah i love my maggies! you aint seen nothin yet!
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I've got two 1941 models, a Philco 41-295, and a Zenith 8-S-563. I also have a Philco 39-116 (the one with the mystery control), but it still needs a lot of work, and is currently literally sitting underneath a pile of boxes, so I can't get a pic.
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Omegaman's consoles
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Here are three of my consoles. I have five
Voice of Music 1963 Model 869 http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1323287566 Blaupunkt from 1960 http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1323287566 Barzilay console with Fisher tube http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1323287566 |
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Here are a couple of mine.
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absolutly beautiful! keep em comming!
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I've had almost every Philco console there is, including the 39-116. Never had mine working either...... |
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"She got them Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur (with the fur)......"
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once i close, im going up north, renting a massive u-haul, and pulling all my cool old shit you guys havent seen yet, even at ak, and bringing it all down here, dont worry, there will be a disgusting amount of pics for the "stereorob re-united with all of his toys from years past" thread, not just a bunch of stereos, but lots of old antique radios, 20 or so consoles, and all the other wierd electro-junk i have! :D :banana: |
Yep, I'm a big fan of 1939-42 Philcos. The only real downside is all the rubber wire with crumbling insulation that you have to replace. I used to also have a 42-690, with the BOL phono, but the cabinet was badly water damaged, and the chassis had a mouse nest in it made from that pink insulation, so I just parted it out. My all-time favorite console is the 42-1016P, with the mystery control, BOL, and old FM band. I've always found it kind of disappointing that Philco didn't continue using the BOL and mystery control after the war.
You can really crank up the 41-295 too, with the push-pull 42s it has. I've recently gotten into weightlifting, and with it heavy metal, (listening to Ray Conniff and Herb Alpert 1960s-easy-listening-type-stuff that I usually listen to doesn't really work as well when you're trying to bench press) It is some kind of height of weirdness, to be listening to 1980s heavy metal, from mp3 files on my 2000 computer, through my homebrew tube AM transmitter (built on a 1959 Magnavox console amp chassis), on my 1941 Philco radio.:D |
hell, ive played death metal and gangsta rap through a 1926 everready model 1 radio with a horn. now that was just strange :D
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Once upon a time I attempted to play "Metal Machine Music" (on 8-track) in my car. Then it caught fire...
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This Philco 42-1009 found at at a flee market by the trash pile
Now I need knobs and speaker to complete it. The The other one is my best Philco, a 501X from 1934. Phono is 33 and 78 rpm That 42 is one sweet output tube! Attachment 172761Attachment 172762Attachment 172763Attachment 172764 Attachment 172765 |
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Remember Ward Cleaver's hi-fi from Leave It To Beaver? Here's a fair screen capture of June playing a record on it. It has no receiver in it, was available with and without that year. General Electric "Canterbury", 1961. I'm looking for one preferably with the radio and Vacu-Magic tone arm.
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Here's a 1960 GE stereo console that I rebuilt for a customer a few years ago.
It has a Voice of Music changer with a Sonotone cartridge and a new rubber idler pulley. All new caps in the amp and speaker crossovers and all new tubes. Has Aux inputs and a tape loop! http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1325820686 http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1325820699 http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1325820699 |
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As you can see, I'm a sucker for a FISHER.......6 or 7 depending on whether you count the 560 extension as a separate or not.
1951 FISHER CORONET in the WARWICK Cabinet. http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325966323 1965 FISHER Custom Electra VIII http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325966505 1965 FISHER FUTURA VI http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325966412 1969 Magnavox Chairside with Extension http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325966101 1963 Nordemende Isabella http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325966024 1961 DUMONT Tanglewood. http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325965919 Cont'd next post...... Larry |
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Now for the Rest.
1958 RCA SHF-5 http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325967026 1959 FISHER 510 Consolette with the 560 companion http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...1&d=1325967323 1961 FISHER Coronet II (Cabinet with 400 installed) http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/100_1900.jpg 1964 FISHER Custom Electra VII 1965 Grundig 590 http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/100_2319.jpg 1967 Magnavox Forest Hills (1p3700) 1969 FISHER Royal electra http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...erconsole1.jpg I'll try and get some pics of the CE VII and the Maggie. My camera is down right now. Larry |
IVE ALWAYS LOVED THE FISHER CONSOLES. ive had a few over the years. but sadly they dont last long in one piece around my house if they have stand alone tube receivers built into them. :D
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Here's a Steelman console I have. AM radio and record player.
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Other than the Magnavox consoles that neighbors had in the neighborhood, I have never seen any of these Fisher, VM, or any DuMont consoles. I've got an old mono RCA console in the garage.
The Fishers were really lovely units. I had, and donated, a GE Vacuumatic console. The thrift store got some good money for it, too, and I was happy. |
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You guys are inspiring me, and causing me to start getting packed in! :D
I just brought home a six foot long Zenith/Voice of Music console stereo. Somewhere along the line, it's been modified with very heavy duty adjustable crossovers. Price was $25 in a beautiful Danish Modern cabinet with not a scratch on it. Seller said that it didn't work, and the reason why was stupid.....somewhere along the line, someone disconnected all of the speakers. I assume that there must have been, making this 2 for 2, some external speaker hookup. I removed the huge back to expect to find a small Voice of Music 6BQ5 amp similar to what's in the RCA I just got. Nope. Push pull stereo 6L6's, on an amp that's got to have a footprint of about a foot square. This is serious audio. And what amazing sound! I'll post pics tomorrow :) |
Turns out that this is a Voice of Music console, model 816-2, from 1960. It's got a Zenith label on the front lower left corner that has a pilot light, and has a Zenith stereophonic tube tuner. Here's a picture of what it looks like:
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So somebody modded it with the crossover and Zenith tuner? Maybe had no tuner at all originally? Sounds hefty!
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Y'know, I'm not sure exactly what was done, or if this is the way it came from the factory. Here's the unit itself:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f9...d/IMG_5340.jpg Here's the tuner/pre setup, below the preamp are the two crossover adjust knobs : http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f9...d/IMG_5341.jpg There's a Zenith OEM decal on the back that has the tuner model number and a tube layout. It also seems that someone added a mono/stereo knob on the back with again what looks like a factory decal, but someone had to notch out the vent holes in the waferboard for it. I'd take more pics, but my camera's out of charge...... This is an interesting find indeed. Figuring what it is, alone, is worth the $25 I paid for it :) |
If you look closely around the side edges of the tuner, the wood seems to be a different color... which would indicate to me that something else was in there originally. It may not have been a tuner though, it's more likely it was a little record bin or something.
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Spoke to a very nice gentleman at http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/ this morning.
He informed me that the 800 series never came with a tuner, but that there was a slot for adding one. Apparently whoever had this, added the Zenith one. Trying to figure out what to do with the unit now....... |
here are a few i have in storage in my long forgotton teenage hangout garage of yesteryear. when i went up north last year, i snapped these. these consoles have not seen power, or the light of day in 10+ years. someday i will go back for them..
maggie providential http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...TS/MAGGIE1.jpg note the garrard TT, clearly not original, but not my work. http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...OTS/MAGIE2.jpg monkey wards airline.. http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...TS/GHJYUKU.jpg on the bottom of the stack, you can see the top of my zenith tube tv/stereo console http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...ROOTS/NITH.jpg |
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