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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
They used that same cabinet on a pre-war 2 tube TRF set. Those are the ones that are rare. I don't think many of those survived. Pin-drive speaker, resistance line cord and minimal performance.  |
I cannot for the life of me imagine how a 2-tube radio could work, even as a TRF set. My grandmother had a 1948 GE TRF clock radio, but that set had four tubes, which makes more sense to me for a TRF radio. The only problem, at least with my grandmother's set and a 1936 Silvertone table set she had, was that these radios would pick up extremely strong stations on at least two points on the dial. Her radios were at her summer cottage, which was located five miles from a 50kW station, so you can imagine how strong that station was at that location -- it came in like gangbusters.
BTW, what is a pin-drive loudspeaker? I am familiar with PM speakers and field-coil ones, but pin-drive speakers are new to me. (Shows my age -- I am 56 years old and hadn't even been thought of when TRF radios and pin-drive speakers were new.)
BTW (2): Thank goodness resistance line cords (aka "curtain burners") are no longer used, having been replaced many decades ago (before tube-type radios were phased out in favor of transistor sets) by actual dropping resistors on the radio's chassis. I hate to think of how many house fires may have been caused by resistance cords which were too close to very flammable curtains.
Thanks much.