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Old 16th Apr 2019, 9:43 pm   #1
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Can you guess what radio this was before somebody converted it.
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Old 17th Apr 2019, 7:45 am   #2
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Goodness...that wiring warning would be enough to keep me well away!

I usually obey that rule, But to have it so blatantly spelled out...
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Old 17th Apr 2019, 9:58 am   #3
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Looks rather like it might have been a Telefusion/Rediffusion radio relay speaker originally.
Also looks about as dangerous as the sort of thing I might have concocted up in my early years as an enthusiastic, but un-knowledeable lad! Tony.
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Old 18th Apr 2019, 8:58 pm   #4
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Take a look at this, can you spot the similarity.


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Old 18th Apr 2019, 9:09 pm   #5
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Ah yes, a sawn off KB 550.

What's he used for the chassis? It looks as if he pinched the missus table cloth for the speaker cloth. Quite a lethal lash up looking at the warning on top of the cabinet.

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Old 18th Apr 2019, 9:20 pm   #6
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A steampunk blunderbuss cabinet cut-down and upcycled into a radio as a feat of retaliation for all those AVOs?

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light the blue touch paper and stand clear..May be held in a gloved hand..It's 'orrible! John.
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Old 20th Apr 2019, 9:37 pm   #8
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Find about fifty of the scruffiest cracked up Rifa Class X caps and connect across the mains (inside the set), stand well clear and connect to the mains. It may however discolour that speaker table cloth somewhat.

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Old 20th Apr 2019, 11:05 pm   #9
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I did have a go at restoring this poor old example of a KB 540, that I bought for 99p and travelled a round trip of about 250 miles to collect.
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That particular KB 540 now looks like this. http://www.kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_images/kb540/kb540.htm

But I think the ex KB cabinet in post #1 is a step too far to restore, and I agree, it is best blown up or left as it is, as an example of what not to do to a radio.

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