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01-31-2005, 08:18 AM
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1927 Arborphone working
This weekend I have been working on constructing a power supply for this 1927 Arborphone. The supply provides 90 and 22.5 v. B+ and 6-volt A supplies. The radio uses all 01A tubes. This photo shows the power supply, the Arborphone, and an RCA Radiola speaker I got at a pawnshop in Alamogordo, N.M.
The yellow light on the supply indicates 110 AC, the green for 90-v dc and the red for 6 volt filament. We have been able to get all our local stations well on the radio--it's built like a tank! 
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01-31-2005, 08:18 AM
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Here is a closeup of the radio chassis with the tubes on.
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01-31-2005, 08:59 AM
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Ultra cool! It's a shame so many of these types of radios were thrown out, where they rusted away to nothing. Glad to see one that was brought back to life!
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01-31-2005, 09:55 PM
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Alamogordo? The tubes aren't the only things on that Formica desk that glow. The whole notion of what our army pulled there is no less frightening six decades later.
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02-22-2005, 07:19 PM
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"Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Almagordo, Bikini....." Chorus from an old song heard on a Dr Demento radio show back about '74. Song was from '46, & was kinda a tongue-in-cheek look at the then-new wonderful world of nuclear annihilation.-Sandy G.
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