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Originally Posted by TinCanAlley
So, I have gotten my hands on several of these old in-wall radio antenna sockets, but this is the first one that has the original plug. I've cleaned it up, but it still has some old paint in areas that are quite hard to reach. I think I'll leave it as is so as not to damage it. From a reasonable distance, it looks pretty new.
What I need to know is what kind of wire is needed for the plug. Is it just your standard cloth covered wire? The hole in the plug is kind of oval instead of round, but maybe this is so the wire fits snugly?
Also, I found no markings to help determine age. It was removed from an apartment in a building that was built somewhere between 1938 and '41. The socket was connected to blue wire (not cloth, but pretty old) and went up to the attic of the building. There was a long copper wire that has long sagged and fallen.
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That ones a little different than the common Arrow-Hart type.
The original wire used was probably cloth covered rubber single conductor stranded wire. One for antenna, one for ground.
When I would see console radios at the Goodwill, many times, they still had that type of plug connected to the antenna and ground wires.
It was great, when the radio had to be moved for cleaning or decorating, but it always seemed the the radio always to be in the same location.