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A sad find - Westinghouse transistor portable
Found this poor little guy on the scrap metal pile at the town dump earlier this summer. Initially was going to leave it lie in state; came back later in the day and felt too bad for it. I suspect it wasn't in bad shape when tossed on the scrap metal pile, but by the time I found it, the front-end loader had "compacted' the pile :-( The poor thing was full of dirt.
It deserves a better fate. I will likely be leaving it on the freebie pile at the NEARC fleamarket on Oct. 2 in Manchester, NH. www.nearc.net I had tried to take a photo of its innards but my camera battery died. I can re-try later if anyone is interested.
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Po widdle feller...
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I have that model radio in physically better shape, but, needing help, and, parts. How much to ship yours to 33705?
PM me. I really need it, fi you are getting rid of it. Thanks. Bill Cahill
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Yes, that's sad. I have the yellow and white version of that radio that I paid $35 back in around '92. The president of our now defunct antique radio club had it and didn't really want to sell it; but, I pestered him a few times about it and he agreed to sell it to me with the understanding that I give him first shot at buying it back if I ever decided to sell it.
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The innards
My luck with digital camera batteries has been poor lately. Different camera (the "shop" camera), dead batteries in this one, too! Just threw in the 'emergency' set of alkalines whilst the others charge.
Meanwhile, here are a couple of quick 'n' dirty photos of the innards. I cannae tell; does the speaker really have an inverted magnet, or is this one just trashed? Bill, I just sent you a PM.
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PM reply just sent back. Many thanks.
Looks like it may be inverted. My speaker was trashed by roaches. Bill Cahill
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Agree ! looks just like the speaker in my 4 tube Motorola 54L1.... extra points; where are the tubes?
jr Last edited by jr_tech; 06-06-2017 at 11:55 AM. |
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3 submini's, one regular miniature
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Yep!
A 3S4 for audio out... the rest are sub mini 1AJ5 (detector and 1st audio) 1AH4 (if amp) and 1V6 (triode-pentode convertor). jr Didn't you do some conversions of AC sets to sub-minis ? |
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The speaker in my yellow and white westinghouse is inverted, just like the one in the picture.
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Can't tell from the picture, but if the ferrite antenna is broken, you can superglue or epoxy it back together and it will work fine.
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coupla more photos FYI and FWIW...
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Well, radio arrived safely in the mail today.
Case is pretty rough, as stated. I pulled mine down, which I haven't had open in years. You'll never believe this! Mine has an original 9 volt battery plugged in, dead as a door nail! It had leaked, and, other battery clips are ruinned, as are their mounting studs in case. The diagram shows it uses 6 D cell batteries, sayd nothing about a 9 volt battery. And, that battery, I've never seen anything like it in my life! It's about 6" long, is Eveready, and, has a long number on it. I doubt it could still be purchased. It snaps into those other battery clips. Is the radio supposed to take the 6 batteries, and, the 9 volt, or, what?? All battery clips are connected with wires, and, that 9 volt battery is connectedwith that 2 prong plug. Is this a 9 volt radio, or, higher than that? I know back in the early days the first transistor radios work on something like a 90 volt battery. Is this an 18 volt radio,or, what?? Anybody got a schematic on this set? Looks like an interesting radio to me.... Bill Cahill
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