Just for Sandy G... looky what followed me up to NH
 

Yeah, it is a total boat anchor; no tubes, bent front panel, dead leaves in the chassis... but otherwise intact :-P

But boy is it built like a brick latrine... ceramic sockets, etc.

How could I resist a freebie like this? ;-)

Homina Homina Homina....

That's ancient and beauteous: should be a doable restore: one point is the black paint is a cinch to match and no screened legends: easier to make look nice again. What a project! Hope all the coils are there. Apparently this is not plug-in coils but with a bandswitch?

Is that an NC100?
That era Nationals, have a coil rack assembly, that slides back and forth to select the bands. Their pre-war sets were really overbuilt and very high quality.
I have an NC2-40, post war model that is simular, with the matching speaker. Very impressive! :thmbsp:

Oh man, that is a beauty. I'm glad I don't have to lift it.
Paul

Looks like someone fumbled it, I see bent front panel in the lower left. Hopefully it's rugged enough to not mind...
http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...8&d=1372519198

oh, it's rugged. I'll probably tie a rope to a pickup truck to pull the kink out of the front panel... ;-)

It is intact as far as I can tell albeit sans tubes.

Nationals were always Top-Drawer type stuff, even if perhaps a bit archaic, in some respects. Their little SW-54 AA5 type starter SW receiver of the Fifties got many a wide-eyed boy-And likely a few girls, too-Started in the Majick world of Swort-Wave Radio..

My dad had an old National-built "RAO-7" (the Army's designation) war-surplus all-band communications receiver like this one; the little "NC" logo was shown on a nameplate on the front panel. His was every bit as large and heavy (if not more so) as the one we are discussing here. It was one of the first shortwave radios I listened to for W1AW code practice before I got my amateur radio license. These receivers were built like tanks, as mentioned, as was most communications gear made for the military, unlike today's offshore-made junk.

The pre-war Nationals were designed when James Millen was the head of the engineering department.
He used to write the advertising text for their product line, proclaiming that National used components that were made in their plant. Not the lower priced parts found in common broadcast receivers of the day.
I wonder what firm, he was refering to. :D

Hammarlund & Hallicrafters..

I was thinking Hallicrafters and Howard, as well. :boring:

Looks like one I saw at an estate sale in Brookline.
piles of electronics mostly beat up or strange newer
test eqmt. I passed on all of it...........

73 Zeno:smoke:

Have an NC-120 that I can't see through the damn dial it's so clouded...

I'm casually looking for an NC-188. I grew up listening to one, it's what started my love of shortwave radio. One of these days I'll actively search and find one :)

The black paint seems to be a wrinkle finish. I did some of that on my Atwater Kent 37, and I used some stuff from automotive supply. It worked well, but I wonder if there are any alternative products?

A pre-WW II National, definitely a really high end boat anchor built in the Brick Outhouse tradition James Millen engendered. A superb set, very worth restoring. Beautiful old girl.