Anyone have any information/schematic for a Freed 28?

[RetroHacker]

A little Freed-Eisemann radio followed me home from a radio club meeting. It's a rather neat looking little set, with broadcast band and shortwave, and an impressive number of tubes in the back. The tubes are:
6A7, 6D6, 75, 43, 25Z5, K18B (three of them) and an MT-650 (metal).
The K18B is a ballast tube, and I am pretty sure that the MT-650 is as well. Some of the sockets are stamped with the tube type that goes in them (but not all of them), and one of the K18B's is in a socket marked 12Z3. But this set already has a rectifier - a 25Z5. The 25Z5 socket is properly labeled as such. I haven't pulled the chassis yet to see how it's wired, but both sockets appear to be factory - riveted in the same way.

There is no model number on the set, but from looking at the Radio Attic archives, it appears to be a Freed 28. Here's a link to the site, with a picture of what this thing looks like (not mine, of course). http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.php?radio=1070

Does anyone have a schematic or any information (like where the tubes are supposed to go)?

Thanks!

-Ian

[ekimetsok]

Is the chassis blue by any chance? If it is, and based on the number of ballasts that falsely inflates the tube count, I'm guessing it's a rebadged International Kadette.

[radioactive]

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goodluck.

[RetroHacker]

Yeah, I posted this to both forums at the same time. One of the guys over there suggested that it might be the same as the Freed 30D - which is on NostalgiaAir. It certainly seems to be the same set, judging by the tube lineup. I pulled the chassis from mine, and I can see that it has been serviced a couple times in the past. The line cord was replaced, as were several capacitors. Probably some time in the 50's or 60's. I'll have to go through things carefully, but it looks pretty similar to the 30D on NostalgiaAir.

Also note that the schematic calls this a "10 Tube - 2 Band AC-DC Superhetrodyne Receiver". Which is technically correct - if you overlook the fact that four tubes are resistors in tube-like packages, and one is a tuning eye. So it's just a five tube set. With flair.

-Ian