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19th Feb 2020, 12:33 am | #1 |
Triode
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Strad Radio console Identification
Hi all, Can some one help with the identification of this radio. The dial says Strad. I believe it may have been made here in Australia under licence by Briton radio and electric co Sydney with Chassis 6DWS-601? Chassis also used in Airzone and Peal radios of the Era. Any help and or circuit would be greatly appreciated. Any ideas on how to flatten out the buckled dial would also be great. Cheers, Geoff.
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19th Feb 2020, 10:37 pm | #2 |
Nonode
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Is it really fitted with an EK1 valve?
Does the EK1 have an 8 pin European side contact valvebase? If it does, the chassis has an unusual combination of European and American valves. |
19th Feb 2020, 10:57 pm | #3 |
Dekatron
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
From the Radiomuseum, the EK1 octode: Has the Ct8 side contact base.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_ek1.html DFWB. |
19th Feb 2020, 11:26 pm | #4 |
Triode
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
It sure does but as mentioned the 6DWS Chassis was use here in Australia by Briton Radio / elect so quite possible a mix of what was available at the time.
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20th Feb 2020, 12:21 am | #5 |
Dekatron
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Interesting - Strad radios are fairly often met with here in the UK, but were products of R M Electric of Gateshead in the North East, which according to RM.org (no connection!) was only founded in 1944.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hers...ompany_id=6414 The rather handsome console has every appearance of dating from the middle 1930s, when as far as I know no British company was using or had registered the Strad trade name. Paul |
20th Feb 2020, 8:15 am | #6 |
Triode
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Thanks for the info Paul, the plot thickens.... interesting.
Will check out the link. Geoff. |
20th Feb 2020, 10:05 am | #7 |
Octode
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
There was another very smart Australian Strad console set on here about ten years ago.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=58098 Andrew
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20th Feb 2020, 10:31 am | #8 |
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Which enquiry also petered out unresolved.
The Briton 6DWS you mentioned https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/briton_6dws.html does have the same valve lineup. No picture, unfortunately. Thom and Smith Pty also used a similar lineup, though without the extra 6D6 RF stage https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/thomand_tasma_320.html
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20th Feb 2020, 11:29 am | #9 |
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Yes... I'm hazarding a guess that the Strad brand may have been used in Australia for a line of sets produced by an established factory exclusively for a department store chain. There doesn't seem anything to link it to British Strad radios, and eighty-odd years on it can be tricky in the UK to link our native brands to the department stores that sold them, never mind to find any service info unless a chassis is a more or less exact match for a model distributed through the usual trade channels.
Paul |
20th Feb 2020, 2:02 pm | #10 |
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
Any chance of a close up of the dial? I assume it says Strad and from a distance the font looks similar to the distinctive one used by Strad here ... I expcet it will be completely different when we see but just wondering.
John |
21st Feb 2020, 7:42 am | #11 | |
Triode
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Re: Strad Radio console Identification
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Page 27 at bottom. The dial face is a little scratch because its warped and the needle has rubbed on it. Any ideas on how to flatten it out would be appreciated. Cheers all |
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