1935 GE Model A-53 AM/SW Tombstone Radio

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If it uses the same 30s 5-pin socket/base as a type 76 tube (common speaker plug into the octal era) then it is in a way keyed such that it only plugs in one way. There's 4 pins closely clustered and a 5th pin off a ways....pin spacing is not symmetrical in both axes so it will only plug in one way (unless you break it).

Well that's the thing the plug coming out of the radio itself is broken, it's broken on one of the sides that has the close together pins.

But I think though that more than likely it's the hum bucking coil, that's bad, like I already suggested, I was just throwing that out there as an alternative idea.