Honey I Shrunk the Chassis........

[hagstar]

..........and speaker!

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Thanks,
John H.
On the West Coast of New England

[Stephanie Weil]

In article <111aopi...@corp.supernews.com>, hagstar wrote:
> ..........and speaker!
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38033&item=6511884083&rd=1

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New York City, U.S.A.

[Stephanie Weil]

In article <slrnd1at4n.h...@home3.gordsven.com>, Stephanie Weil wrote:

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My eternal question....

WHY???

[Phil Nelson]

> My eternal question....
> WHY???

When I was an unmentored teenager, I played with "junk" that other people
threw away, got a lot of shocks, made countless other mistakes. This looks
like a similar project.

We made regular trips to the town dump with our .22 rifles to shoot the
lights out of old radios, TVs, stoves, refrigerators, and the occasional
rat. Don't shed any needless tears. These were cheap broken Airlines,
Silvertones, Coronados, etc., the kind of stuff poor farmers would discard
after years of service. Nobody within 100 miles could have afforded a
Stratosphere without mortgaging the farm.

Phil

[Steven Dinius]

"Phil Nelson" <philn...@nospam.xyz> wrote in message
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OH, VOMIT <rolleyes>

[Brenda Ann]

"Phil Nelson" <philn...@nospam.xyz> wrote in message
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My most industrious project was when I was 15, I got hold of an old Motorola
cabinet (table model, one of the old cube shaped wooden ones) with just a
CRT and the tuner mounted in it.

I took a Philco split chassis and built it into it, and connected the
original tuner, switch and volume control into that chassis. I actually got
the thing to work, but the AGC voltages were different, and I never did get
that to work properly, so I put a pot out the side of the cabinet to adjust
the gain manually.

[Mike Schultz]

Nice, but they only did half the job. It should be painted pink.

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"Stephanie Weil" <step...@gordsven.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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[robert casey]

Stephanie Weil wrote:

> My eternal question....
>
> WHY???
>

It was probably done 40 years ago, when this radio
was just "an old piece of junk" and not of "antique
collector" interest. Like the way most of us see a radio
made in 1974. Someone must have liked the cabinet,
but couldn't figure out how to fix the chassis. So
in went an AA5 chassis..... I would have put more
effort to make the tuning cap shaft like up with
where the tuning knob should go, and detach the
volume control via hook up wire to one of the smaller
knob holes. And make a dial.

[Keith Park]

Makes one weep doesnt it!

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" hagstar" <" hagstar"@msn.com> wrote in message
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[hagstar]

Phil Nelson wrote:
>>My eternal question....
>>WHY???
>
>
> When I was an unmentored teenager, I played with "junk" that other people
> threw away,

I used to seek out big 1930ish consoles for the 50 type output tubes I
favored as hand grenades. Must have smashed several dozen between 1965
and '68.

[Uncle Peter]

" hagstar" <" hagstar"@msn.com> wrote in message >

> I used to seek out big 1930ish consoles for the 50 type output tubes I
> favored as hand grenades. Must have smashed several dozen between 1965
> and '68.
>
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>
> Thanks,
> John H.
> On the West Coast of New England
>
>

Begone, troll!!

[robert casey]

Keith Park wrote:
> Makes one weep doesnt it!
>

Well, at the time it probably would have been thrown out
otherwise. Someone skillful at such should be able to
patch up the holes in the side. Now to find the correct
chassis.....

[Brenda Ann]

" Uncle Peter" <radiocon...@cox.netSPAM> wrote in message
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Ack!! I didn't use 'em as grenades, but I sure parted out my share of
consoles and tombstones when I was 10-11 years old.. wish I had known then
what I know now.. *flogs self*

[Bill Jeffrey]

I saw one of those in a consignment antique shop in Phoenix last year.
It was a nice-looking Philco cathedral case, not hacked up like the one
in this auction. It was the Featured Item of the Month, set right on
the big desk at the checkout area, the first thing you saw as you came
in. Nice neatly printed sign, "1934 Philco Cathedral Model xx", and a
price which was reasonable but hardly cheap. I went over and picked it
up to turn it around - and it was REALLY light weight. The seller had
fabricated a back, so you couldn't see inside, but I pried the edge of
the back up a bit, and sure enough, a small AA-5 chassis skewed around
and propped up so the knobs would fit the original holes.

The shop owner didn't like being told it was a ripoff - but next day it
was gone.

Bill Jeffrey
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[Keith Park]

1000 lashes with a wet noodle!!

Keith

[Keith Park]

OK... I gotta be honest about my own checkered past.

1982 or 3, over at the local hospital, Several boxes of brown bakelite
"heads" out in the trash with some other stuff.
No, they werent radios... they were intercom speakers... thats nice,
intercom speakers arent worth anything and they explode so nicely when
tossed into a large empty dumpster from 30 feet up.

Yep. Every one! Ta think of the house I could have bought in CASH today!
One of the things that make me such a packrat in the 90's

Keith