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Old 08-17-2013, 06:24 PM
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1949 Motorola 9VT1
 
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Location: Suffolk, VA
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Originally Posted by Sandy G View Post
I have a couple of those little guys...Problem I have w/'em is the tuning knob & whatever its hooked to, seem to be kinda "Rubbery" & make it hard to tune in an SW station easily...They ARE Cute l'il buggers, though..
That rubbery feeling is called backlash and yes there is a lot of it. Even on AM I have to rock the knob back and forth to fine tune. I can see the main design objective for these sets was miniaturization hence the very small knobs and no bandspread through reduction gears or anything like that. I absolutely love the 2" B&W picture on these, so clear and when you turn it off, the picture collapses to a dot like the sets of old.

Here is a picture of it from the auction listing. This set is cosmetically mint including the fitted carry case and yes i have the snap on front cover and carry strap.
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