[Coco] OT- Old Radio Help Request

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Steve
Knowing that the radio is a Zenith and having the chassis 
number will help! Try going to "Nostalgia Air" web site and 
see if you can find your radio! Even if you cant ID it by the 
pictures you may be able to look up the chassis number and 
get a schematic!
Good luck
Eric


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:53:55 -0600
>From: smostrom at mn.rr.com  
>Subject: [Coco] OT- Old Radio Help Request  
>To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>
>Sorry for the off-topic question, but I was able to get back 
out to the family cabin over the weekend (lake still frozen 
solid, but most of the snow is gone now), and got some more 
information about our cabinet radio.  Hopefully some of you 
who volunteered help can add more information.
>
>The radio is a Zenith, but I could find no date or model 
number.  A tag inside reads, "Made in USA by Zenith Radio 
Corp.  S693466"  Another sticker reads, "Zenith Radio, Chasis 
Model 1005, Watts 95, Volts 117, Cycles 50-60".  The face of 
the radio has a central dial divided into 3 frequency rings, 
one arc in the upper half of the dial and two arcs in the 
lower half.  The upper arc is labeled "Foreign Broadcast" 
with a range of 6 to 18 MC.  There are many countries listed 
around this arc.  One of the two lower arcs are 
labeled "Medium Wave" with a range of 1.6 to 5.0 MC.  The 
other is labeled "Standard Broadcast" with a range of 55 to 
60 KC.  To both sides of this central dial are a bank of 6 
switches.  The left set are labeled "Voice, Normal, Treble, 
Alto, Bass and Lo Bass".  The right set of switches are 
labeled with what looks like radio station call letters, but 
most of these are worn off.  Below the central dial is a 
round knob (volume and on-off ?) with a 4-position lev!
> er switch
>
>Inside the cabinet is a vacuum tube chasis with 6 glass 
tubes and a collection of metal cylinders and other 
components.  I could only read the glass on 4 of the tubes.  
There are two that read "6X5 GT/G", one that reads "6V6 G", 
and one that reads "6V6 GT/G".  The other two tubes are 
located behind these and I could not pull them out easily.  
On this tube chasis is a selector switch that 
reads "Television / Radio", but there isn't any indication 
that a TV is an option, but this might help date the radio.
>
>In the cabinet base is a board on swivels with a wire 
harness leading to it from the tube chasis above that is 
labeled "Sensitivity Control for Operator".  It looks like 
there is an antenna wire attached here on a screw head 
labeled "A", another screw head labeled "G" (ground, maybe?) 
and a slide switch labeled "local / distant".
>
>Unfortunately the power cord is extremely brittle and 
cracked so I didn't want to plug it in to turn it on.  I'll 
have to replace this cord before I do any testing.
>
>If Dennis or any other old radio experts can help date this 
radio and give me any pointers on how to test and fix it up, 
it would be great.  Also, I would love to buy spare tubes 
from any of you that might have replacements.  Maybe you know 
from the tubes described what the other two tubes are without 
me needing to pull them out.
>
>Thanks much for the help, and sorry again for the off-topic 
post, although the radio is being used as my Coco3 monitor 
stand, if that helps!  :-)
>
>-- Steve --
>
>
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