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04-22-2021, 01:48 PM
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If it were mine to do, this is how I'd do it;
I would not change the radio to adapt a different vibrator, I'd adapt the different vibrator to work with the radio's original socket. The Ebay vibrator is electrically what you need, it's just got the wrong pin configuration. It would be a simple matter to use the original base with it's pins from your dead vibrator to build a home made adapter to make the Ebay vibrator work. With the nostalgia air schematic you've already got the electrical pinout of your original. Somewhere out here in internetland there's gotta be a datasheet where you can get the pinout of the Ebay vibrator. Solder six wires to the new vibrator's pins, connect them in the proper order to the six pins of your original vibrator's base, epoxy it into a small piece of PVC pipe for sturdiness, and run it.... 
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04-22-2021, 04:12 PM
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04-22-2021, 05:43 PM
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A little update:
I found two listings on ebay from the same person that has the correct type of vibrator for sale that I need for my radio! The Radiart Type 5411 Vibrator. https://www.ebay.com/itm/29405504020...oAAOSwvlVgR~7m https://www.ebay.com/itm/29405497859...YAAOSwpKJgR~HE
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04-23-2021, 10:59 AM
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UPDATE: I managed to snag one of those Radiart type 5411 Vibrators that I posted the links to in the previous post.
They should be here by next week hopefully.
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04-23-2021, 05:08 PM
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 That is awesome news! I'm happy to hear that you won't have to try to kludge something in....
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04-25-2021, 09:44 PM
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04-27-2021, 12:11 PM
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A Little update, I got my Vibrator yesterday, and I put it into the radio and hooked the battery up to it, turned on the radio and the tubes glowed and the pilot light came on but still no audio and it didn't seem like vibrator was doing anything still.
I've completely recapped this radio (except for the capacitor attached to the volume control that is used for tone compensation), and I tried hooking the vibrator up to my variac and running it with 6V AC and all the way up to 24V AC and the Vibrator is not wanting to respond I was even trying to gently tap the vibrator housing to see if I could get it to start that way, and nothing. So a couple of questions, how common is it for these Vibrators to be Dead, including NOS ones, and do these vibrators actually make an audible humming noise when they are running properly? I just seem to keep hitting roadblocks with this radio and I really want to get this radio working because its a really neat radio.
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