1932 GM Little General 250A Help

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by fixmeplease

I havent looked it over much yet. Im assuming 630v is enough on the regular caps because of their sizes. I do see a little work done on it, but not as much as I usually see on 1930's radios. Someone hacked a newer cord onto the cloth one to make it longer so it was likely working for a lot of years.

There are no markings on the electro cans other than the maker. 450 volts it is! I need to order them before I start on it, but I will test the transformer 1st cuz Im sure a replacement would be difficult to locate. Its the 1st cathedral style Ive done. Thanks guys! If I proceed with it I may have another question on the multi-section resistors, or not.

It looks like your radio is very similar to my 1932 U. S. Gloritone Cathedral Radio which was made by the United States Television and Radio Company of Marion, Indiana and my radio is a 5 tube set with a 47 Output tube, and 80 Rectifier Tube, a 27 Tube, and 2 35 tubes and on mine someone had already replaced the orginal cloth cord with a reproduction cloth cord that they attached to its original Bakelite plug end, and recapped the radio, but unfortunately it was never realigned and I can see why, its because all of the IF Can alignment points are under the chassis which means the radio has to be out of the cabinet for the alignment process which could be dangerous because you're working around a live radio chassis and one slip could put you into contact with 600+ volts DC.