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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
When I was acquiring test equipment in the early 60's, I bought Allied Knight Kit equipment because they had a store in Milwaukee and I didn't have wait for mail order. Most of my test equipment was kit form. I was in my early teens at the time. It was good enough for simple alignment procedures.
Later on, I was able source a GI unit that was more impressive and stable.
I am really amazed at some of the test equipment that is available today.
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I had a friend I went to church with who built an old Allied Knight Kit Stereo System that he built a solid walnut Console Cabinet for when he was in High School back in the 1960s (he's probably about the same age as you are), and it had a push-pull 6BQ5 Amplifier, a Stereophonic AM/FM Tuner with a Magic Tuning Eye Tube for the tuning meter, and a Warwick Built/Sourced 4 Speed Record Changer, and a set of Knight 3 way Coaxial Speakers all built into the solid walnut console cabinet that he had built for it in shop class when he was in High School.
Unfortunately by the time he gave me the unit the amplifier's power transformer was blown, so I salvaged the tubes out of the unit and installed an old Kenwood amplifier into the cabinet to continue using the tuner and turntable and speakers but then the tuner died as well and so I ended up saving the tubes out of the tuner and scrapped the rest of the unit out and sold the Kenwood amplifier and just used the cabinet for my LCD Projector Video system since.