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| GlennSprigg:
To answer a few various questions here... It's still in the Post, and since this Covid-19 business, they are slow!! As a result, I am not aware of the Tube-Lineup yet. And no, it is not a home made case. I have since found ONE image of one, from an old auction site, going back 4 years, with the SAME Case/Material. I 1st thought it might be the SAME unit, (now being sold by someone else), until I noticed that THAT one has 2 latch-clips, where as the one that coming to me (photos above) has only 1 latch. Must be an older model!! hahaha... ;D And yes, to take the weight of the chassis & batteries, I imagine it is cloth covered wood panels. I know an upholsterer, and will avail myself of his expertise to totally re-cover it, like new!! 8) Regarding the crappy 'plastic' dial front cover, I will fabricate a new clear one!, including heating and smoothly out-denting the shape, as per the original. (I know how... 8) ) When it comes, and I open it up, you/I will know more.... |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 08:12:24 am --- --- Quote from: Circlotron on May 27, 2020, 06:05:06 am ---Could be a custom case somebody made for it. What is the valve lineup? --- End quote --- I'm inclined to agree------it doesn't look as professional as I would expect from Technico. As to ugly, have I shown you the "Number 11 Radio set " I used to own? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_set_No._11 --- End quote --- Show us a pic of that !!! ;D |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 27, 2020, 12:03:16 pm --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 08:12:24 am --- --- Quote from: Circlotron on May 27, 2020, 06:05:06 am ---Could be a custom case somebody made for it. What is the valve lineup? --- End quote --- I'm inclined to agree------it doesn't look as professional as I would expect from Technico. As to ugly, have I shown you the "Number 11 Radio set " I used to own? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_set_No._11 --- End quote --- Show us a pic of that !!! ;D --- End quote --- I don't have it any more, & can't find any pix that will let me copy them. The best I can do is the wiki link. Just click on that, then on the small pix on the page for a full screen pix. Both the one in the pix & mine were AWA made Oz ones! I'm fairly sure they had a different set of valves to the Brit ones. |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 01:34:18 pm --- --- Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 27, 2020, 12:03:16 pm --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 08:12:24 am --- --- Quote from: Circlotron on May 27, 2020, 06:05:06 am ---Could be a custom case somebody made for it. What is the valve lineup? --- End quote --- I'm inclined to agree------it doesn't look as professional as I would expect from Technico. As to ugly, have I shown you the "Number 11 Radio set " I used to own? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_set_No._11 --- End quote --- Show us a pic of that !!! ;D --- End quote --- I don't have it any more, & can't find any pix that will let me copy them. The best I can do is the wiki link. Just click on that, then on the small pix on the page for a full screen pix. Both the one in the pix & mine were AWA made Oz ones! I'm fairly sure they had a different set of valves to the Brit ones. --- End quote --- UGLY!!... are you mad!... that's BEAUTIFUL !!!!! The epitome of wonderful military nostalgia that I LOVE !!!!!!!! :scared: |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 27, 2020, 02:39:41 pm --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 01:34:18 pm --- --- Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 27, 2020, 12:03:16 pm --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 27, 2020, 08:12:24 am --- --- Quote from: Circlotron on May 27, 2020, 06:05:06 am ---Could be a custom case somebody made for it. What is the valve lineup? --- End quote --- I'm inclined to agree------it doesn't look as professional as I would expect from Technico. As to ugly, have I shown you the "Number 11 Radio set " I used to own? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_set_No._11 --- End quote --- Show us a pic of that !!! ;D --- End quote --- I don't have it any more, & can't find any pix that will let me copy them. The best I can do is the wiki link. Just click on that, then on the small pix on the page for a full screen pix. Both the one in the pix & mine were AWA made Oz ones! I'm fairly sure they had a different set of valves to the Brit ones. --- End quote --- UGLY!!... are you mad!... that's BEAUTIFUL !!!!! The epitome of wonderful military nostalgia that I LOVE !!!!!!!! :scared: --- End quote --- The funny thing, Glenn, is that looking at the picture, I can still remember what it smelled like! I bought it in the very early '60s, from "Andy Anderson" in Perth, who had a lot of surplus military electronics stuff in his Murray St store. From memory, the No.11 was five quid!($10 to the "younguns")------as that was a week's wage to me back then, I had to save up! I would have done better to have saved four times longer & got a No.22, which had 6 volt tubes & was more amenable to modification. Andy's is also where I bought the 6SH7's for my R,TV & H "Set for young DXers", which probably, with all its problems, was more useful to me than the No.11, but didn't look quite as cool! In Andy's other store, in Hay Street, he had an eclectic collection of junk, from radial engines out of an Avro Anson to Hupmobile headlights, & every conceivable thing in between! There were quite a few similar establishments, such as ""Jack's Equipment Mart" in Wellington St, & "O.W. Strang" in Victoria Park, who had a complete Rolls Royce Merlin in his window! I guess most cities had similar establishments. |
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