JJGross
10-24-2007, 11:22 PM
I recently scavaged an old tube hi-fi tuner (am-fm-sw) and power amp frm an old hi-fi. I intended to build a Champ/Princeton out of it since it has most of the parts for one.
Before I turn it into a catalog of old parts, would anyone be interested in it intact?
I'd have to guess at it's manufacturing date, but by the components in it, I'd guess around 1947, maybe earlier. The newest date code I could find on anything are a few of the tubes with 1959 dates on them. The circuitry is full of domino type capacitors, bumblebees, carbon comps, you name it. Not a single transistor in sight and it even has the "Magic Eye' 6E5 tuner strength tube in it. Not a lot of plastic coated wire either - a lot of cloth or braided stainless steel over cloth. I bet this thing cost a fortune when it was new. I have no way of testing it as-is, but it was completely intact when I saw it on the curb a couple days ago. The trash truck was a few blocks away so rather than try to get back with my truck and grab the entire cabinet, I grabbed a screwdriver and pliers and pulled the chassis out of it right on the side of the road. I knocked on the door of the house it was in front of, but nobody answered so I had at it and this is what I got.
What I'd like for it in trade are enough of the main components (similar to what's in here like tube sockets & transformers) that I'd be gutting from this so I can still build my Champ without tearing down something extremely old that someone else might want in one piece.
I also grabbed the speaker from it since it was only held in place with 2 nuts that weren't even very tight. It's one of those ancient jobs that has an electromaget on the back instead of a permanent magnet and a transformer mounted on the speaker frame and several wires going to a phenolic connector. It's a 10" speaker and it looks to be in nearly perfect shape.
Some pictures of it:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-488F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-489F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-490F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-491F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-492F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-493F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-494F.jpg
There are more at http://s233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/ if you want to check them out.
Cheers,
- JJ
Before I turn it into a catalog of old parts, would anyone be interested in it intact?
I'd have to guess at it's manufacturing date, but by the components in it, I'd guess around 1947, maybe earlier. The newest date code I could find on anything are a few of the tubes with 1959 dates on them. The circuitry is full of domino type capacitors, bumblebees, carbon comps, you name it. Not a single transistor in sight and it even has the "Magic Eye' 6E5 tuner strength tube in it. Not a lot of plastic coated wire either - a lot of cloth or braided stainless steel over cloth. I bet this thing cost a fortune when it was new. I have no way of testing it as-is, but it was completely intact when I saw it on the curb a couple days ago. The trash truck was a few blocks away so rather than try to get back with my truck and grab the entire cabinet, I grabbed a screwdriver and pliers and pulled the chassis out of it right on the side of the road. I knocked on the door of the house it was in front of, but nobody answered so I had at it and this is what I got.
What I'd like for it in trade are enough of the main components (similar to what's in here like tube sockets & transformers) that I'd be gutting from this so I can still build my Champ without tearing down something extremely old that someone else might want in one piece.
I also grabbed the speaker from it since it was only held in place with 2 nuts that weren't even very tight. It's one of those ancient jobs that has an electromaget on the back instead of a permanent magnet and a transformer mounted on the speaker frame and several wires going to a phenolic connector. It's a 10" speaker and it looks to be in nearly perfect shape.
Some pictures of it:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-488F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-489F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-490F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-491F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-492F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-493F.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/MVC-494F.jpg
There are more at http://s233.photobucket.com/albums/ee255/BubbaKahuna/ if you want to check them out.
Cheers,
- JJ