[Milsurplus] Latest Video, another Torn E.b.

Gordon Smith gfsmith at cox.net
Wed May 4 17:14:39 EDT 2022


Wow....NICE Ray!...the Mechanical Engineer in me just absolutely 
LOVES that rotating turret with all the (I am assuming) internal 
tuning coils and tuning equipment. :)

73, Gordon KJ6IKT

At 12:40 PM 5/4/2022, Ray Fantini wrote:
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>The second German Torn E.b. set that I have done. Built the power 
>supply, had to remove a bunch of modifications and return to 
>original configuration and after a big search located the original 
>power connector for the front of the radio to replace the octal 
>socket that someone installed so that all original now. The male 
>plug set was from what was a clump of  corroded pot metal that had 
>been buried somewhere in Russia for fifty years or so before it was 
>purchase by the radios owner and provided, amazing how well it cleaned up.
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><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AkHzRdKNY&t=23s>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AkHzRdKNY&t=23s
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>If you never used a TRF regen before there is a learning curve. Can 
>see why US manufactures abounded that technology by the late 
>twenties but have noticed that a lot of the early German radios were 
>TRF/Regens.
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>Ray F/KA3EKH
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