Anyone knows what radio is this?

[Peter2017]

Dear People

Any one knows what radio is this? and who sells parts for it?

I understand that uses an external battery, can someone confirm this please.

Thank you.

[Paul_RK]

I've not seen anything quite like the model, and I'm pretty sure it won't have been marketed in the UK at all, but the battery connector looks like a type that was used on various American "farm radios" as well as larger portables -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...oneBattery.jpg

Paul

[Herald1360]

Parts will be standard electronics components for which modern equivalents or old stock (in the case of tubes) will usually be available. From where (in Honduras) I've no idea but generally Ebay will have sellers offering something suitable, provided that you know what you actually need.

Otherwise mainstream distributors like RS components, Mouser, Digikey etc will have modern resistors and capacitors etc.

If you can provide details of all the tubes used in the set, it may be possible to trace a Philips schematic for something similar......

TBH the set looks "odd". There's a magic eye bezel at the front but they're unusual on a battery set. Is the chassis actually right for the cabinet?

The mixture of octal and more recent tubes is also odd for Philips who generally fitted matching sets of their own brand tubes.

[60 oldjohn]

TBH the set looks "odd". There's a magic eye bezel at the front but they're unusual on a battery set. Is the chassis actually right for the cabinet?

Just my thoughts, looking in at the back of set the large dial attached to the VC has numbers on it ??. Same picture left hand side looks like the shaft of a knob??
Speaker not in correct place, it is on top of where the magic eye should be.

Possibly unknown 1930s chassis in a late 1950s Philips cabinet. Should be possible to get going but is it worth it?

John.

[usradcoll1]

Speaker not in correct place, it is on top of where the magic eye should be.
Possibly unknown 1930s chassis in a late 1950s Philips cabinet.

The chassis is an early 50's RCA built issue. The speaker is US sourced.
The EIA number is 274, which is RCA's number. Looks like a Frankenradio.

[Records]

Be interesting to see if it could be made to work and what it sounds like.
Least its not a complete horror to look at like some franken radios.

[Trifocaltrev]

The battery plug is the standard B4 type used on EverReady and Drydex combined HT + LT batteries. My guess is that it is an early 1950s European set which uses a DM71 magic eye which Philips were found of using in their quality battery sets!

Out of interest, what is the remaining valve line up?

Regards
Trevor.

[Paul_RK]

Originally Posted by Trifocaltrev

The battery plug is the standard B4 type used on EverReady and Drydex combined HT + LT batteries.

Hello Trevor,

I'm not certain, but the pin spacing doesn't look like B4 to me - the axis of symmetry appears to be between the pins as in the link I gave above, and incidentally as in the plug used on smaller British HT/LT batteries, rather than passing through two of them as in the B4.

Paul

[batterymaker1]

That is a plug used for a 759 farm pack. A real big'un.

[paulsherwin]

I don't think we ever used those here.

The OP is in Honduras, so the cabinet may have been made by Philips Eindhoven for export, or it may be a model from one of the Philips South American subsidiaries. There may be some connection with the Netherlands Antilles or Surinam. The internals are probably American, but this is all guesswork.

[usradcoll1]

Originally Posted by Trifocaltrev

Out of interest, what is the remaining valve line up?

The valve line up, appears to be, US types, left to right, 1A7GT, 1N5GT, the miniture a 1U5 or 1S5 and output a 1Q5GT, 3Q5GT or a 1A5GT.
Those valves were not used in current production US sets, that late. Looks to be built in later 1951.

[peter_sol]

The OP has not come back to us yet but as the chassis is wrong, what are the piano keys doing and the concentric controls, are they just for show?

[Al (astral highway)]

A KR output valve there, Czech made, formerly Tesla? They claim high-end properties for audio enthusiasts, it seems?

[ms660]

K-R Tubes Inc, made in USA.

Lawrence.

[Maarten]

Originally Posted by paulsherwin

The OP is in Honduras, so the cabinet may have been made by Philips Eindhoven for export, or it may be a model from one of the Philips South American subsidiaries. There may be some connection with the Netherlands Antilles or Surinam. The internals are probably American, but this is all guesswork.

I agree on the internals. However, oddly Philips never had serious commercial or manufacturing operations on the Antilles or in Surinam as far as I have been able to find. Their South American commercial and manufacturing locations were mostly in Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. At least in the 1960's and later, but likely also in the years before. Export to other countries seems to have been either directly through Eindhoven or from a nearby country. The most important production centres are in Brazil and Mexico nowadays, but Argentina had, a.o., a car radio factory near the South pole which still exists under another name.

Commercial operations meaning an office that not only sold but also specified and sometimes partially designed models for the local market and regional export, often sourced from their own or nearby Philips factories. This corresponds to the country letters used up to 1966 and the country numbers from 1966 on in the model designation.

[D Cassidy]

Originally Posted by ms660

K-R Tubes Inc, made in USA.

Hello.
See here
http://www.kraudio.com

[Brigham]

The piano keys appear to be On/Off plus five wavebands. I can't work out which wavebands from the pic.

[ms660]

K-R tube entry in radiomuseum, mouse over pic for more detail:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_herst...ompany_id=9246

Lawrence.

[D Cassidy]

Hello.
I am not a member of radiomuseum so unable to check any references. KR are a long established manufacturer of valves and took over Tesla production after the Velvet Revolution.
Tesla now seems to be a US car manufacturer. Over the years I have seen many instances in mining equipment of the U.S. using established foreign companies names with an added hyphen or comma. As far I am concerned KR is a Czech company.

[ms660]

I've no wish to argue, all I'm saying is the K-R tube in the OP's pic was made in the USA because that's what's printed on it.

Lawrence.