Re: Radios with motor tuning units
Looking back on the PC, I found some old photos of the RGD that I took over 12 years ago and it shows the motorised tuning. This was when the set packed up and I've just remembered that it failed spectacularly with a flash and some sparking from inside. I seem to remember that the wiring was quite rotten and was shorting out the HT. I decided not to bother with a major fault finding and rewiring job at the time and shoved it up into the loft to be looked at again sometime in the distant future - and it's still there!
I did work on a Rigonda radiogram for someone a couple or three years ago that had motorised tuning - driven by an EL84 type valve, I seem to remember.
RGD pictures below - probably I should have another look at it sometime this winter...if I can work up the enthusiasm - and if I can find it!
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