[NJARC] Vintage Delco Radio for Sale

Thu Apr 7 01:39:46 EDT 2011

Never having operated the radio I can't say, although I have fiddled 
with the knobs on it.
The leftmost knob makes a click, and is presumably the on/off and 
volume.   Second from the left is the band selector, which switches an 
indicator from American (White) to Police (Green) to Foreign (Red).
The third knob controls the two hands, and this knob has an inner and 
outer knob which do fine and coarse control of the hands.   The 4th knob 
does not seem to affect anything with the power off so I can't tell what 
it does.

However, I don't think the hands are for a clock.  When turning the knob 
that controls the hands they do not move around continuosly, there is a 
hard stop going clockwise and counter-clockwise just before the 12 
o'clock position.
I believe the clock notation may just have been some old way of 
referring to frequency locations on the dial.

There is a small circle where the 12 o'clock position is instead of the 
Roman number 12, with what looks like some clear hole which maybe has a 
light or some other indicator there.

On 4/7/2011 1:01 AM, Scott Roberts wrote:
> Josh-
>   I am truly intrigued by the radio, and would be interested were it not for the half dozen others I have around here: However, I noticed something you never mentioned, which may have interest for others on the list(and have replied "All" so they will know-) This is not only a neat AM/SW/Police/Aviation/Amateur receiver, but it is ALSO appears to be a a CLOCK! Took me a minute, but the face is clearly there, but I am not sure about the works, as I can't get a look inside at how the needles move. I am imagining there may be an inside lighted marked for the frequency, and the two needles seen are the clock hands. Somebody can check on this, but that is how it looks to me- 12 through 11 in the normal clockface order in Roman numerals around the outside edge...
>
> I could be wrong, but it worth it to take a look!
> Scott
>
> --- On Thu, 4/7/11, Joshua Hosseinof<jh at hoss.net>  wrote:
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>> From: Joshua Hosseinof<jh at hoss.net>
>> Subject: [NJARC] Vintage Delco Radio for Sale
>> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 12:31 AM
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>> _________________________________________________________
>> When I bought my home 6 years ago, I bought from the owners
>> a Delco
>> R-1118 Radio from the 1930's which has frequency coverage
>> of the AM band
>> from 530khz to 1750khz,   
>> Police/Amateur/Aviation from 1.7mhz to
>> 5.5mhz,  and Shortwave from 5.5mhz to 18Mhz.  At
>> some point I had
>> planned to work on it as a restoration project, but never
>> got around to it.
>>
>> Now I am moving out of the country and would like to sell
>> it, I am
>> asking $100 OBO.
>>
>> Pictures are available here:
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/jhosseinof/ForSale#
>>
>> A small part of the wood on top has started to peel off,
>> and the bottom
>> 6 inches of the wood is a bit worn.
>>
>> I am located in Teaneck NJ about 10 minutes from the George
>> Washington
>> Bridge.   Due to the size of this item it is
>> for Pickup only.
>>
>> If any of you are interested, please let me know.
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