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OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
« on: February 20, 2017, 11:27:35 PM »
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I was pOOking arOOund OOn OOld time radiOOs and fOOund this OOne:



The "Mae West" radio from Emerson.

I love those knobs.

Hey, knobs, knobs, the ones at the bottom.  So smooth and round.

Details.... if needed.
http://www.tuberadioland.com/emersonBD-197_main.html

(I tried to look up the tube 3CR-241which they call a "ballast tube," but I suspect it was a voltage regulator tube to keep the tuning stabilized, especially in the short-wave band.)

ETA:  ^Yep.

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Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2017, 11:45:15 PM »
So that's where "Tune into Tokyo" came from.
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Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2017, 06:44:02 AM »
Wow. That thing was the equivalent of $700...
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Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2017, 10:38:16 AM »
Don't forget to read the biography of the designer, Count Sakhnoffsky, at the bottom of the link.  He was apparently quite the roué, he was.