erla and what is it?

[Sandy G]

I think you'll be well-pleased w/it when you get it percolatin' again...(grin)

[Buzzsaaw]

It's the Weekend!...

I was looking at the drawing and the dial ... 3 band? If you look just around the area of the ERLA name and in the same yellow ink..you'll see the 5.8 to 18.1 mhz band.

Buzz

[Reece]

One of the posts above said that the wiring diagram that I pointed out shows a three-band radio, but your dial shows two bands. The diagram is the closest one I found to your radio. Yours is probably a variant where they eliminated the less interesting first short wave band.

[Buzzsaaw]

Reece.. if you look close to the dial picture, the radio does have 3 bands.. as mentioned in my last post.

Buzz

[dimbulb]

Hi! ERLA stands for Electrical Research Labs. They were a radio mfg. located in Chicago. Schematics can be found on Nostalgia Air under that name. The reason I know this is that I just acquired a 1930's ERLA cathedral yesterday. Interestingly, it has a Hammond clock mounted within the area of the speaker cone making it one of the first clock-radios!!

[Buzzsaaw]

Question for you that might have seen this model.

I've been getting back with all my "started" radios for restoration. This ERLA upright is on the bench. As I was removing the chassis I noticed.. hay.. no Antenna!.. There's two leads coming out the back of the chassis and hanging down below the board that the Chassis was mounted to. Grabbing the flashlight, I could see were there's a mark on the underside of this board where possibly the Antenna could have lived. Here's a pic looking up at the bottom of the Chassis mounting board.:



You can see the 3 holes for the chassis mounting screws and over to the right what looks like a large slot I presume is for the speaker wires (5) and the power cord. You can see the "band" from left to right where the antenna could have been.
I thought of buying a wave magnet or some such antenna but finding out just what was there would be interesting. I could also build one using a board form of the appropriate dimension and winding a coil on.

But I'd like to find out what is "original stock" for this radio.

[Buzzsaaw]

Thanks Folks,

Reese posted the link to the schematic for this radio in one of his posting (above) and it's real accurate!

After I got some of the Dust balls out I noticed a little funny looking round deal-e-O!.. It's a durn battery!.. Use for biasing the First Audio/Detector Tube (75).. and hooked to the variable arm of the Volume control pot... That's neat!

What should I use to replace this little single cell battery with? It's 1.5 volts and has a part number of 1928..?.. No, I didn't measure this one yet.. I bet it's dead as a door Nail! Nice little holder too.

It's a little hard to see in my picture. It's just South of the Diagonally mounted Blue Ecap and it's on the terminal strip. The holding clip is to the left of the actual round battery.

Buzz