Old radio find

[altivo]

Came home to discover a large antique radio cabinet in the garage. Gary pulled it in from one of the neighbors' trash piles. It's all intact and except for a lot of dust, appears to be in good restorable condition. General Electric, I'm guessing pre-WW2 vintage, but no model identification remains. I think it might be fun to repair and restore this, but it will be on hold until after the holidays at least.

	GE Radio cabinet front closed I'm sure the pulls are supposed to have little dangly brass ornaments or loops but those are gone. The wood is in surprisingly good condition, though, except for a few chips on the top. Approx. dimensions are 60 in. high, 32 in. wide, and 18 in. deep.
	GE Radio cabinet front open Speaker grill work and cloth is intact. It appears to be AM band only, with knobs for tone, volume, and tuning. On-off is the tiny knob below the tuning dial. A brass toggle switch on the center of the right hand side of the cabinet is probably a fringe-local switch for the tuning circuit.
	GE Radio rear view Two chassis, the top being the receiver, the bottom being the power supply and audio amplifier I think. No label remains with model information, alas. The one at the center behind the top chassis just says that the manufacturer recommends genuine RCA tubes. I'm betting that the large loudspeaker is one of those "dynamic" speakers that has a large DC choke coil instead of permanent magnets, and the power supply uses that coil as a filter choke. That explains the practice of putting the power rectifier next to the speaker along with the audio amplifier stage.

Comments

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Aerofox would know.

That's what I was thinking immediately when I saw it. :-) It looks similar, maybe, to one he posted a picture of in his journal?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I expect aerofox will know, possibly even the entire circuit and the full list of things to be repaired, as soon as he sees the photos. I mailed them to him before posting here, but he probably hasn't gotten around to them yet.