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Old 13th Apr 2023, 11:27 am   #1
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Default Emmerson 888 working again.

I have stopped buying radios ,well nearly ,I just had to have this one it's made in England so has L/W as a pre set . I didn't mess about just went in and replaced most of the capacitors, even the blue one Philips type which was a replacement some time ago had gone to one tenth of its stated value. A clean of the v/c and the tuning cap where it shorts the contacts for L/W a re alignment of the I'F and rf circuits gave very good results ,there it is next to the American M/W only version . Mick.
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Old 26th Apr 2023, 4:11 pm   #2
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Default Re: Emmerson 888 working again.

The Emerson 888 "Vanguard" with 1500m LW was the subject of my very first forum post, the obligatory "Can you identify this radio".
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=54759
I made the cardinal sin of posting an external link to my pencil sketch of set, which naturally has evaporated, but Tom managed to correctly identify it.

It must have been a valuable item to lend to a child to take away to boarding school. I can remember listening to Cliff & the Shadows playing "The Young Ones" in the school yard.

It was a black one like yours.
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Old 28th Apr 2023, 2:05 pm   #3
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Thanks for that Graham ,see my post two Emmerson radios. Mick.
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I have stopped buying radios ,well nearly ,I just had to have this one it's made in England so has L/W as a pre set . I didn't mess about just went in and replaced most of the capacitors, even the blue one Philips type which was a replacement some time ago had gone to one tenth of its stated value. A clean of the v/c and the tuning cap where it shorts the contacts for L/W a re alignment of the I'F and rf circuits gave very good results ,there it is next to the American M/W only version . Mick.
I still have one in my collection, the first model. They were sold for around $40 USD, a little more than half the price of the Zenith Royal 500.
It was larger, sounded better and performance about equal.
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