bikerbass15
XS650 Member
Well, I’m older than my XS... but only by 4
years!
years!
Oh, Bob, I remember all of that! "Hi-fi"s, TVs, console and table radios, even car radios (pre-1955ish? anybody?) used vacuum tubes. And guitar amplifiers (the best ones still do). Tubes are still being manufactured in many different places/countries. A tester like the one you pictured is GOLD! to anyone who "tinkers" with the vacuum tube alchemy.
Well if we are going to be talking old sound equipment here is what I have hopes of getting working again someday if I ever get up the ambition.
As I recall it was a birthday present to my Mom's mother from her kids, guessing sometime in the 1940's. I remember listening to it as a kid and playing the 78's on it which are stored in the light colored albums on either side, yea Mom decided to use fake wood shelf liner to patch them up years ago!
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From what I have learned on the internet the main problem with old radios of this vintage is the capacitors dry out and go bad.
I was able to locate and save a schematic for it online.
Two problems with working on them are, first the chassis is used as the ground so as they came with a plug end that will fit the wall socket either way the chassis can be hot depending on how you plug it in. And second is they were not fused so if there is a short from say a bad capacitor they can go up in smoke pretty fast!
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A bit rough but still around! Not sure of what scale it is
A Duesenberg had a V12. Your car has a straight 8. Maybe it's a lesser Packard.Got to going through this tread and say downeaster's post about the Hubley model car and I just had to dig out this old one. Believe it's a Duesenberg.
A bit rough but still around! Not sure of what scale it is but if he was doing another of these dioramas and wanted something to park in a barn he could have it with all the authentic dust included! If I dig around might even find the other spare tire and the trunk for the back!View attachment 169967
A Duesenberg had a V12. Your car has a straight 8. Maybe it's a lesser Packard.