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Originally Posted by Captainclock
No, its not a live chassis set, it has a power transformer in it, that's how its able to switch voltages! You can't switch voltages otherwise, and besides most if not all European radios I've ever seen (e.g. Grundig, Telefunken, Saba, Blaupunkt, etc.) Were almost always cold chassis sets (they had a transformer in them) which is how they are able to have more than one selectable voltage, otherwise they couldn't change the voltage without having a transformer.
I think you need to do your research better before just assuming that every single Radio from that time period was a hot chassis radio, when that actually wasn't the case, hot chassis radios (also known as AA5/AA6 radios) were purely an American design that was designed to cut manufacturing costs and that style of radio came about in the early 1950s and was usually only used on "cheap" plastic table-top radios (and later on in cheaper wooden tabletop radios in the early 1960s towards the end of the tube era in America).
Most Higher End/High End radios and record players still had power transformers in them and were even fused with at least 1 A fuses, the Europeans at that time absolutely despised anything designed by the Americans at that time including radio designs and it showed in the fact that their radio designs all throughout the tube era were exceptionally high quality and no cost cutting in the designs including using a fused cold power supplies (they didn't want to stoop to the cost cutting design low that America sunk to).
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I've seen a few too many of this poster's insults , Telling folks "Do your research" all snooty like , when it is HIM who is WRONG himself !
Enclosed please find a picture of my 1940s Grundig 5 tube hot chassis set that was built for the European market as it has no English writing on it whatsoever (it's all in German)
Look Kid , I know your excited about this great new hobby you've discovered , and sometimes youthful exuberance can be mistaken for arrogance , but you really do need to backpedal on calling folks out based on the limited knowledge you appear to possess about your new hobby .