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Originally Posted by EdKozk2
When I first glanced at at it I thought it was from the 50's or 60's.
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At risk of sounding flippant, I feel compelled to ask what in the world gave you that impression? Maybe I've just been messing with old radios too long. Don't know, but this unit screams 1930s at a glance. The cabinet styling, the ST (coke bottle) style tube envelopes, are the dead giveaways. This was old in the 60s!
Anyway, your son did a great job in spotting that out. It's amazing that a youngster would even know it's a radio.
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Originally Posted by EdKozk2
This should be an easier radio to repair if it doesn't have the brittle rubber insulated wiring I'm currently replacing in a Wells Gardner 1A62-4a chassis/ Coronado console we picked up at the flea market last month.
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I feel your pain on that in a huge way! Rubber and plastic were highly experimental around the 30s. I'm doing an old Wells Gardner/Airline set right now and it's so heartbreaking to touch a wire and see it crumble. Especially if it goes somewhere like an I.F can. I am replacing the worst of it with cloth wire that I rip from some basket case chassis that I keep. I have plenty of brand new wire that to me just looks wrong in the old sets.
Really, if I'm pulling out rubber insulated wire, replacement with the same would truly be more correct I guess. It's not like I'm picky enough to be re-stuffing capacitors or any of the extreme things some of us put ourselves through. I do want everything on top and easily seen to look original as possible. I'm also working with a black dial Zenith console model with the same problem. The harness to the 6U5 "magic eye" has it bad and there's voltages of every kind and strength in that one harness.
It's a labor of love!