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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Bogus? In what way?  If it works with your T/O 7000, I don't see why it should matter what the cord was originally made for.
I found out by accident that an electric shaver cord will work with some late-model Zenith portables. I have a Norelco electric razor with a plug on one end of the coiled cord (the end that plugs into the male AC socket at the base of the razor) that fits the male AC socket on the back of my Zenith R-70 AM/FM portable just perfectly. (A similar AC cord designed for use with a Panasonic boom box also fits that socket.) This cord would almost certainly work as well with any Zenith portable radio using the same type of AC power socket.
Your improvised AC power cord would work, of course, but I'd be sure the end of the cord that connects to the pins of the AC power socket are very well insulated (as you obviously have done, with those barrel connectors). The reason, as you mentioned, is that the pins on this socket are very close together; uninsulated connectors could short to each other, blowing the house fuse, tripping a circuit breaker, or even damaging the radio's power transformer (I'd guess the windings in the power transformer of any solid-state portable AC/battery radio are made of very thin wire, and cannot tolerate sustained current overloads).
The cord you saw on eBay might well have been an exact replacement for an R-7000 or even R-70 AC cord. I've seen these advertised on the site in factory packaging, at reasonable prices. |
My original money-earning job was a Journeyman Industrial Electrician of 30 years, working on just about anything electrical, including switchgear, up to 13,200 volts. The cord I fabricated, fits the radio perfectly, better than my Norelco razor cord, that I used originally to test the radio. The pins are smaller on the radio. The only way the cord I made, could cause a shock or problem, is if I stuck it in my mouth.
I used shrink sleeving to maintain the proper spacing.
I have the original replacement cords somewhere in my collection