32 Volt and 6 Volt Farm Radios

[Olorin67]

A lot of collectors seem to ignore them, since they are a bit strange.. But then there are probably a few of us oddballs that like figuring out how these things worked. They seem to go for less money than similar 120V sets. But if you can show they are in working condition that should improve the situation. I think a lot of collectors just stay away because they are not familiar with restoring them. I have Fairbanks Morse 6 v set, and a Sentinel bakelite set that was modified later with 12 volt tubes and a scary resistor line cord to run on 120V. Never tackled restoring that one, since whats there is so different from the original schematic or a conventional all american five. Its weird, with a triode-Hexode mixer-converter and a strange output stage. Either whoever converted it chose odball tubes because they had the same pinouts as the original battery tubes, or it was done during WWII when many common tube types were unavailable and the serviceman had to be creative.