[NJARC] Vintage Delco Radio for Sale

Thu Apr 7 02:22:06 EDT 2011

The round hole is probably an eye tube- which lights up to show you how strong the signal is: the closer you are to the proper signal frequency of the station, the more it glows... I still kinda think it may be some sort of clock- usually radios with a reference for exact location use a 0-100 "Logging Scale", where a 0-60 (as a clock face is) is not nearly as accurate.

Makes me wish I had the money, I'd buy it just to play with it! If you get desperate, and wneed to find it a home, and no one is responding, let me know, maybe we could work something out. Hopefully I could find room in this mess... ;)

Scott

--- On Thu, 4/7/11, Joshua Hosseinof <jh at hoss.net> wrote:

> From: Joshua Hosseinof <jh at hoss.net>
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Vintage Delco Radio for Sale
> To: "Scott Roberts" <ng19delta at yahoo.com>
> Cc: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:39 AM
> 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:
> > 
> >> 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
> >> Just remember
> >> Reply = Poster
> >> Reply All = Everyone
> >> 
> >>
> _________________________________________________________
> >> 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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