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Old 01-01-2016, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by decojoe67 View Post
I agree with the set in question that it's odd that the relatively smooth knob is used with a clicker tuner. It's designed for the continuous tuner. I have a radio though that has a smooth small knob (original and correct) for band selection that is basically useless. It needed some kind of a leverage bar like on the better sets. Even back then there was a good and bad engineering!
I see the M-1101 at the ETF appears to have the same fine tuning lever, so I know mines not alone. But I kinda wonder if there was an upgrade tuner available later on. possibly to resolve an inconsistent tuning issue? And somehow it never made it into Riders.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/raytheon_m-1101.html
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