[NJARC] Mystery radiooo

StephenTetorka at cs.com StephenTetorka at cs.com
Sat Feb 11 15:35:13 EST 2006


Hello Aaron and friends:

Here's the details:

Shape - Tombstone
Height - 18 in.
Width - 14
Depth - 10

Top solid mahogany
Sides mahogany veneer
No panel on rear

Front decorative copper-like plate reads "President" under the 
interior/recessed tuning scale which is 1/2 in wide band with 3 in radius.

3 controls - center tune control connected to moving pointer over scale which 
reads "100 on left end...0 on right end"  located on 3 gang variable made by 
Dejur Amsco, NYC

Lower left control is "on/off" pot that does not use center pot tap.

Right control pot has connection to 47 grid and other tap to ground.

Chassis - front in North, left is West, right is East, rear is South
Looking down at chassis:
Polymet Xmfr in NW corner - coming south next to it are 2 each Polymet caps 
19v @ 8 mfd
North center is 3 gang var Dejur Amsco
Along East (right)side starting from North coming South ( toward rear) - 
RCA235, RCA 235,
Ajax 235, RCA UY224 with paper label dated Oct. 1934
Parallel to these tubes are 3 each coil contained in metal canisters with 
taps going to  top grid caps on the tubes
Along the South (rear) starting from West: 280, 47 dated Aug. 12, 1938, 47

Under chassis:
Written in pencil " W.A. Parker 10/12/31 final test OK" written over this is 
"JR"

Speaker : Rola model F  1800 ohms...7 inch diameter, 5 wires going to plug 
into rear chassis

Chassis is Extremely clean and surprisingly bright...as well as all other 
metal...just one small spot on chassis top has very slight 
corrosion....amazing...

Found a penny inside it...dated 1941...

Regards,
Steve


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