A sad find - Westinghouse transistor portable

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Originally Posted by Bill Cahill

Well, radio arrived safely in the mail today.
Case is pretty rough, as stated.
I pulled mine down, which I haven't had open in years.
You'll never believe this!
Mine has an original 9 volt battery plugged in, dead as a door nail!
It had leaked, and, other battery clips are ruinned, as are their mounting studs in case.
The diagram shows it uses 6 D cell batteries, sayd nothing about a 9 volt battery.
And, that battery, I've never seen anything like it in my life!
It's about 6" long, is Eveready, and, has a long number on it. I doubt it could still be purchased.
It snaps into those other battery clips.
Is the radio supposed to take the 6 batteries, and, the 9 volt, or, what??
All battery clips are connected with wires, and, that 9 volt battery is connectedwith that 2 prong plug.
Is this a 9 volt radio, or, higher than that?
I know back in the early days the first transistor radios work on something like a 90 volt battery.
Is this an 18 volt radio,or, what??
Anybody got a schematic on this set?
Looks like an interesting radio to me....
Bill Cahill

Glad it got there in as close to one piece as it was when it left here! :-)

No idea about the batteries; it was my first encounter with this model. Sounds like you've gotten plenty of good advice and info. Wonder if the radio is in Sams' "TRS" series (I didn't check).

Hope you can synthesize a working radio out of the two that you now have!

EDIT: If you wouldn't mind, please post a picture of the one you already had sometime.