Belated Xmas Gift - Raytheon Porthole M1101

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by Radiotronman

Very cool set. Raytheons aren't that easy of a set to find, specially with the stand. I think their portholes are every bit as cool as the zeniths!

What's interesting is that this Raytheon set shares a very common Belmont built chassis. They must have used it in several brands for close to 5 years. Notice the likeness to the outer knobs on this Coronado console that I posted the CL link to a while back. I noticed they were the same basic Belmont chassis when I researched the Coronado set.

http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=265941

[vts1134]

Merry Christmas indeed! That's a cool porthole, and getting the history from the original family of ownership is a really great bonus. Write that story down and save it for some future generation to read many years from now.

Congrats!

[Kevin Kuehn]

Thanks, guys. I cleaned up the knobs and they're in very nice shape.



Behind the channel knob is what appears to be a fine tuning lever, but I can't find any reference to it in either Sams or Riders. What's worse is that I can't figure out how to remove it. It's either very stuck, or I'm missing what's holding it on the shaft. Seems like it and it's bushing should pull straight forward from the inner tuner shaft. I'm going to try a little soak in WD 40. It's the only thing keeping me from removing the chassis. Any idea's?