Late 40s General Electric radio & record player combo.

[cb123]

This is a late 40s  General Electric 78 RPM record player and radio. It played the FM band 1, which no longer is used. It also plays the FM band 2, which is still in use to this day. It has your standard am band and short wave 1 and 2. The 78 RPM record changer has the early magnetic cartridge with the needle permanently fixed, which is still in remarkable condition. All the old paper caps were pretty much out of tolerance and had to be changed, and about 80% of its carbon roundy resistors suffered the some fate. All of its cans were dried out and had to be re-stuffed. Worst of all, some numbskull went in with the golden screwdriver and broke its tuning slug, which also had to be repaired. Pretty much now all I have to do is some cosmetic work to it, and when that's done...it's done. Oh yes, the last photo is what glided in my house last night! Now, I'm pondering on making me a nesting box for'em just so as I can nab one of its babies. 

[this post was last edited: 5/6/2016-01:40]

 

[brando_husky]

Looks like a fun project! Gotta love tube technology. Have a nice tube preamp for our stereo for listening to vinyl and a tube mini record player from the 40s as well as a ham radio receiver we restored from the 1940s. So much fun to work on.

Always remember to watch for residual charge when working on the machines. Can get quite the shock!

 

[cb123]

Yes!!! Electricity is like a caged animal, always wanting to escape and find earth ground thru you!!!  

 

[human]

AM 1?

I had never heard of AM 1. I'm assuming it was situated somewhere below 540 KHz where today's AM (formerly AM 2) starts.

I remember being amused to discover as an adolescent that the FM radio band was situated between VHF TV channels 6 and 7. When I was in college, our campus radio station's assigned frequency was 88.1 MHz, the very bottom of the FM dial, and the local NBC affiliate was channel 6. They actually got an injunction from the FCC to keep the radio station off the air because they said it would interfere with their signal, although it was really the other way around since you could pick up the audio for channel 6 on any FM radio. The university didn't have the money to fight it, so the campus radio station could only broadcast via the local cable company until the FCC granted them a different frequency several years after I had graduated.

 

[cb123]

I'm sorry, I meant FM 1 and FM 2 .

 

[arh1953]

Wow, that's a beautiful set, and I love all the radios on the top. I believe I have that turquoise RCA Victor in the center, or at least similar. PS, be good to the mother to be, she's a cutie!


 


Oh, and check this out. Too bad it's in Petaluma, CA. 



http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/zip/5567678803.html

 

[cb123]

Thanks Alan, here's a cleaner shot of that little critter.  And by a strange quirk, the second photo is of my youngin holding a mockingbird, which fell fast asleep whilst it was taking a sand bath...not a day latter. All he did was just simply reached down and picked him up. Good thing he wasn't a hawk!