E.H. Scott find

[EVBoy]

I found an old E.H. Scott console radio at a thrift store. The cabinet was beat up so it was cheap. The original owner must have been a salesman as the were some sales brochures stashed in the speaker compartment with that 15" Scott (Jensen) coaxial. I think it is a "Metropolitan Chippendale" When I saw the two chrome plated chassis I knew it was an expensive unit so I bought it on the spot. I think they are pretty rare and I got really lucky.

[RetroHacker]

Wow! Nice find! I've been looking for one of those for a long time, ever since I saw Phil's Scott radios on antiqueradio.org.

-Ian

[sprman55]

Hi looks like you got tons of work ahead of you!I have Philharmonic 30 myself...Its in very nice shape..Good luck getting it working a nice find tho.Angelo

[Tom Bavis]

I have the Sams folders for the 16A and 510 - email for a scan.

[Sandy G]

Looks like a smaller version of my Model 800B that Terry fixed.. Good find ! Wish I could find a cabinet for mine...

[Old1625]

I've got the coax speaker and the front-end chassis for one of those. But not the power supply/output chassis. Some dude dropped 'em off and said "No rush, but see if you can make this work for me!" I've been casually looking for a viable amplifier that will also serve as power supply for the other end, but may have to build one from scratch. 'sOK; won't be the first time....

[Brian]

You THINK you got lucky?! Heck, you found the pot 'o gold. I think many of us would kill to find a complete unit. Too many have been stripped from their cabinets. Your cabinet looks to be in really good shape for stripping and redo with no major repair work. Under all that dust is an all-chrome everything.

[Chad Hauris]

Does this one use 6L6's or 2A3 output tubes? I got one at an estate sale which must be a slightly earlier? model...it must have shortwave which it appears yours doesn't have for some reason.
I do have the cabinet for mine and that thing is monstrous! Have never seen such a large cabinet on an old console radio.

How would this chrome be restored? I know on mine, the amp chassis is fairly pitted and corroded.

At least on the one I have, the FM IF stages are in the power amp chassis for some reason...not sure if all are like this, but it would make replacing the amp with a custom built unit more difficult.

Here are some pictures of mine...I do have the amp chassis too but it is in another workshop area.

[Brian]

There was a guy here in Toronto who did a complete restro. Stripped it down to the chassis, stripped out the caps for chroming, etc. Charge to customer was about $8,000 but it included recreating a new cabinet from photos of the original as the cabinet was missing. It took in excess of 2 years and looked brand new. He was in the process of rewinding the voice coil when I saw the project.

[sprman55]

Hi you have the Chippendale cabinet and am not sure of radio but may be missing the projection TV.Im thinking it may be a late 1949 Scott model somewhat like 800b..They made TV/radio sets late befor going out of buissnes, a few sets were made from parts on hand by the new owners.Do you have Serial number?Check and see if set has connection for the tv .. The Scott 800BTcame with a projection tv..Angelo

[Phil Nelson]

EVBoy, I think you have a model 16A -- little brother to the 800B, meaning that it lacks shortwave and the motorized tuner. The cabinet looks like a Chippendale. See the 800B article on my website, which shows a restored 16A (not mine):

http://www.antiqueradio.org/scot02.htm

A wonderful thrift store find, in any case.

For the record, these radios were made by Scott Laboratories, as the company was known after the founder, E.H., left.

Chad, you have an 800B, with shortwave. The big square chromed assembly on the back of the tuner chassis is the motorized tuner. You are correct, the power chassis also contains part of the FM circuit. So if you have an 800B without that chassis, you can't just lash up a homebrew power supply.

If your chrome is badly pitted & flaking off, then you are looking at an expensive replating job. Typically, the pitting is worse on the cans than on the chassis itself. It would be much cheaper to replate only the cans and the RF cover and leave the chassis alone. I shudder to think about stripping that chassis down to bare metal and remanufacturing it. If you do that, I'd suggest taking a million photos and even drawing some pictures, so you could replicate the original lead dress, etc.

That cabinet doesn't look right for the projection TV model, where the right half of the cabinet top flips up to let you raise the projection screen.

Your photo doesn't show what's behind the left door. Look at the photos of my Scott radio/tv/phono combo at:

http://www.antiqueradio.org/scot03.htm

In that set, the direct-view TV is in the right compartment and the tuner is on the left, with space above to hold the record turntable, whose lid flips up.

Perhaps your set was a radio/tv/phono combo, with a missing TV, or a radio/phono combo.

Scott gave people lots of options, with different cabinets and components, or no cabinet at all. I have been told that the postwar radio/tv combos came with a variety of TVs, manufactured by different companies, and ranging up to 19" CRT size. I have spent years trying to identify the manufacturer of the TV in my combo.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Sandy G]

My 800B has a motorised tuner, but I've never tried to fool w/it...The chrome on mine is really nice. Mine has SW, AM, FM, & a phono that I never have messed w/either...The guy I got it from in Connecticut was wanting to send the cabinet down, but we never could figure out how to get it down here for less than "Bankrupt-Jay-Gould" prices, & have something that WASN'T kindling, besides...

[EVBoy]

Here are some more photos. There were also three brochures that came with it. If anyone is interested in them PM me and I will email them to you. The only number I could find was the 732 number on the radio chassis.

[Smoky Pond]

Originally Posted by EVBoy

Here are some more photos. There were also three brochures that came with it. If anyone is interested in them PM me and I will email them to you. The only number I could find was the 732 number on the radio chassis.

That was quite a find EVBoy! I have a Scott Metropolitan Model 16A. You can see it at http://www.smokypond.com/gallery/pic...ics/scott_16a/.

I sure would be interested in a scan of the "Scott Metropolitan Series" Radio/Phone brochure that you have.

Regards,
Matt

[myrgatroyd]

Wonderful cabinet, it will be worth the work. If the veneer is in good condition ... you should cope the restoration. Let us hear of your progress.

yours
Alex