Help ID Capehart

[ejfud]

Trying to ID this, posted in tubes, but this may be more appropriate place.

Just picked this up yesterday, seems to be missing 2 tubes no marking of model number. Chassis stamped 581900 and transformer stamped with 94262 and 306834.

Thanks for any help.

Gary

[Nolan Woodbury]

Precious little info found on this set Gary. I scanned my research info, my collection of SAMS (which needs organized) and used both Google and Yahoo! search engines for something similar....nada. Capehart was pretty active in table radios, consoles, TVs and later, some fairly elaborate systems.

Like other popular AM/FM (88 to 108 MHz FM dial) table sets, I'd guess a build date anywhere from 55-63...or even later, although the styling suggests a 1950s build. I'd just keep looking; sellers offering period adverts on eBay can often ID something not too common, eBay auctions, even a search alert. After you ID it, you can find the SAMS to fit tubes and get it working. I'd say it’s worth the trouble; that's a very handsome radio.

[ejfud]

Thanks. I also had no luck finding anything that looked similar. It was in a console with a Stromberg-Calson ASR-433 integrated and this was just the tuner. Add a Wolverine fullrange speaker and thats it. Nice cabinet as well.

I'll keep you posted if anything turns up.

Gary

[Adam]

I have a very similar Capehart console radio. I know it to be a 1949, in sams 64-3. But I notice a few differences, so it must not be the exact same model. There are 2 tube sockets that are on the back of your chassis, that just have blank covers on mine. Where the two missing tubes are on yours, is where the one 6V6 output tube is on mine, and one of the blanks. So I would guess that yours uses 2 6v6s instead of 1. I don't have a guess for what that extra tube in the back right corner is though. The smaller chassis that goes with it is the phono preamp. The speaker plugs into the rightmost plug on the back edge of the radio chassis, but on mine atleast the output transformer is mounted to the speaker, not attached to the chassis. (and no good, which is why the chassis has been sitting in a box in the closet for years)

[ejfud]

They do look very similar. Thanks for the info.

If the output transformer is on the speaker, those tubes would be no good in a stand alone usage. My console must have been a retro-fit to what it was when I picked it up.

Thanks again.