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Fortunately, we have the opposite problem(or unfortunately depending on how you rate it.)Sure, it's nice stuff, but the store's survival depends on a clientele with much more money than imagination.
Fortunately, we have the opposite problem(or unfortunately depending on how you rate it.)Sure, it's nice stuff, but the store's survival depends on a clientele with much more money than imagination.
You can say that again. :eusa_clapAmong the things on which my attentions will be focused are those Eames-designed radios. A cool grand or more for a $25 estate sale radio would certainly fill my belly for a good long while.
That's a very nice console. The 9S367 has always been one of my favorites. Isn't this cabinet also known as the Zephyr?I just recently purchased this 1939 Zenith 9-S-367 console. It was bought in excellent original condition from a New England antique shop years ago and immediately stored away until I purchased it. I just had to go over the cabinet with Howards and have the chassis re-capped. It's a clean, attractive "machine-age" deco design with beautiful veneers. It is a 9 tube, 2 band set with the green "magic-eye" tuning meter. It has the famous "robot-dial" known as the "shutter-dial". Each dial snaps into view separately in a clam-shell style as you select bands. It also has the first full "organ-control" tone and pre-set station selectors flanking the dial. It has a quality robust look about it and is a joy to listen to with it's classic rich "tube-sound"!
Yes, turned. Past tense.
How it come, that American radio from 40's is nicer than European from 30's?
This afternoon's car boot acquisition. 1944 Wartime "Austerity" Civilian Receiver. Very simple Medium Wave only sets, often cased in scrap wood. designed to be cheap (£10ish) and have as little an impact on war production as possible. It's filthy and all the valves are the originals (they had obfuscated numbers) I don't think the back panel has been off before.
Mains lead is in absolute rag order and will need replaced before I even attempt putting power on it. Off on my holidays this week so it'll have to wait!
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Now up and running. For the techies, it was surprisingly good! Rectifier tube had a physical fault to the base, patched up with epoxy and a replacement has been ordered from an auction site. Westector was knackered, replaced with a modern signal diode.
The AF coupling & tone correction caps were replaced with modern, audio quality, equivalents. The HT smoothing caps should probably have been replaced as a matter of course but my local Maplin didn't have any close equivalents in stock and.... I'm sort of spent out it anyway (largely due to buying almost silly good caps for the audio line). Case was stripped of it's stain, which had been applied by a previous owner, rubbed down, and a clear polyurethane lacquer applied. Gives it an original-ish looking finish while making it relatively easy to keep clean. Antenna is just a random wire hanging out the back, I have a very good earth.
May attempt a better rx alignment when the new valve is delivered... Or I might just leave it as is.
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