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Old 28th Jul 2018, 9:41 pm   #1
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Default Identify vintage Pye Radio?

Hello, all! I discovered a Pye radio in a shop here in the United States, with UK power cord and voltage rating, so this set is a long way from home indeed.

The identification badge is kind of rusty, but it looks like is says "Model P-26." However, I can find no information of this model online. I have attached some pictures, if someone can help me identify it and perhaps acquire service data/schematic information for it, that would be much appreciated!
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Old 29th Jul 2018, 12:12 am   #2
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Default Re: Identify vintage Pye Radio?

It looks very like a P28 but the cabinet is different. It uses the standard short superhet tube lineup found in most of Pye's late 40s / early 50s sets. The tuning scale is certainly what you'd expect for a UK domestic set of the immediate postwar period.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_p28p_2.html
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Old 29th Jul 2018, 12:14 am   #3
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Hi,
It looks like a PYE P28 - There has been an earlier thread about one of these, looks as if this one has had a switch added on the front.
Steve.

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=79097
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Old 29th Jul 2018, 12:33 am   #4
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I agree that it looks like the P28 discussed in that thread, but not the Radiomuseum P28. Maybe Pye redesigned the cabinet during the production run.
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Old 29th Jul 2018, 12:36 am   #5
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Made in Ireland?

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Old 29th Jul 2018, 12:41 am   #6
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Could be. The maker's plate is green rather than the normal Pye blue, though the tuning scale station names use British rather than Irish nomenclature. The Dublin Dundrum factory did make the P28 and a lot seem to have been sold in the Republic.
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I always look at postings such as this and often think - "Oh yes, I've worked on one of those", but my admiration really goes out to those who can actually recall things like model numbers!
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Different cabinet and wave bands but otherwise probably based on the 15A ?

A picture of the inside would confirm this
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Old 30th Jul 2018, 9:12 am   #9
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The green plate doesn't mean Irish. The Irish made ones I've seen either have blue plates or stickers (from 1955?). The scale on Irish models is always Dundrum Dublin instead of Cambridge England. Usually on rear panel too.
I think there are lots of PYE models not in R&TVS or Trader. Not all export models have PE either. Some PE models sold in UK.
So it's likely made in UK.

It can't be P26? There is a P26BQ (a mains/battery two band set).

It's same valve/tubes and bands as the https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_19a19.html (The 19A and 19D have different numbers of bands)
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https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_p28p_2.html
Pye did do models with same chassis and different cases, though usually gave different model numbers.
two other versions of case:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_39jh39_j.html
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_a39jh.html
(I have an Irish version, it's a blue plate and has a magic eye, Pye 39 JH/E)

I've seen Irish version of this: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_ca...ational_p.html
SAME model number, but scale has Dundrum Dublin, so does rear panel. I think the grill on UK model can be cloth or metal
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Old 30th Jul 2018, 9:19 am   #10
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I think it's likely a UK P28 and the corrosion makes it look like P26.
I don't know why there seems to be two versions of the case.
I've certainly restored a Pye with SW and EBL31 (only 30% emission, but worked usably), but I forget which model. Not one of my own sets.
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Pye were great fans of the short superhet and used the same design in most of their models at the time, even in radiograms. Some of them had a single SW band and some had several SW bandspreads as here. They stuck with short superhets after the octal era with the diodes moved to the EBF80 IF amp.

They are not difficult sets to work on and perform surprisingly well. The EBL31 has become scarce and expensive but is still obtainable, though it may be hard to find in the US. It's possible to build an adaptor from an old octal base so that an EL84 and solid state diodes can be used.
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