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Title: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
Post by: 230RN on February 20, 2017, 11:27:35 PM

 :rofl:
I was pOOking arOOund OOn OOld time radiOOs and fOOund this OOne:

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tuberadioland.com%2Fsitebuilder%2Fimages%2Femersonbd197_2-598x412.jpg&hash=130dbe6b6197ab271da90a32a1545a7c6b7dff4d)

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.

Terry

Title: Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
Post by: charby on February 20, 2017, 11:45:15 PM

So that's where "Tune into Tokyo" came from.

Title: Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
Post by: K Frame on February 21, 2017, 06:44:02 AM

Wow. That thing was the equivalent of $700...

Title: Re: OOld time radiOO --just fOOr grins
Post by: 230RN 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.