[Electronic M]

Well I brought the trio in from the garage so the cars can go in there once the winter weather eventually starts, and started noticing the Dumont has musty smell like some 30's radios but worse.....Turns out that smell is mice....I pulled the chassis and had about a basket balls worth of mouse nest and turds. The little cretans ate the wiring harnesses, paper caps and peed all over the place corroding much of the chassis....Ooh, and the ceramic tuner shaft is broken.









The unit looks to originally have used a field coil speaker that was replaced with a PM speaker....Initially I thought that 16 (! jeez!) resistor kludge was the work of an idiot, but upon further reflection I think it may be a poor man's power resistor sub for the field coil. There are many poor repairs in it including a rectifier tube socket replacement.
I've about reached the point of declaring the mouse-house a parts set...

I've opened it's Stromberg Carlson doppelganger too, but I'll wait till the afternoon to post that story...