Metal cased Sparton radio with chrome and green photo finish wood
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2024
- Never seen one of these before. Very cool looking. In the 30's some radio manufactures were making fake wood pattern finishes. These were essentially photos of wood applied as a thin overlay.
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Rare Di- Noc radio. Made by 3M company it is a type of vinyl film adhesive covering that allowed you to take the item any
place you wanted to. Di- Noc is short for diurno nocturn. Implying beautiful both daytime and nighttime. It was designed
by industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague so it is very valuable and the best looking radio you have ever worked on.
Sparton called it the Selectronne. Other radios that actually used glass were also designed by Teague too were Sparton's
the Bluebird, Sled and large console the Nocturne. Those are incredibly expensive for an AM only radio. It is worth about
$600 if restored completely.
I knew that after checking out your thumbnail of this radio that it is a pre-war set, that it was manufactured a year before WWII. How awesome that set from 1938 is!
This is one of the better radios I have seen you restore.
I'm amazed that such a vulnerable finish has lasted so long without apparent damage. Someone must have loved this wireless very much. Let's hope the next owner does too! Nice job.
Nice looking radio !
I remember all the old radio sets that were still around when i was a kid in the 1980s that were from the 1920s to the 1970s they are all long gone now, my grandparents used to give me old radios and record players to dismantle when I was 5/6 years old
That thing has the look of something that's gonna go for big bucks..
That is indeed a cool and elegant set!
Feeling the rectifier and audio output tube for heat is a great old timer radio guy trick! Too much, or too little can tell you a lot. One of the electrolytics was probably getting hot too.
The following is just a kindly suggestion, and I hope you don't take it as a criticism:
For the transformer sets I would use a 40 watt light bulb in series with the variac. It would get bright, then dim, and then get bright again if the B+ is shorted saving the rectifier and transformer.
Series string sets don't need to, but you would know if you have an open heater, power cord, or power switch right away.
I used dim bulb a lot in my grandfather's shop - it protected (within limits) the set from mistakes (usually mine), too. Then he got an isolation transformer with meter (a lot like Seth's, but the outlets were still tight) and insisted I learn to watch current carefully.
Either way works, main thing - isolation transformer is an absolute must.
that is a really nice unit Mr. Radio 👍
What a loverly wood effect 😀
Best wishes from Scotland 👋
Did the 4 push buttons work??? How do you set them for a particular frequency???
Let the set warm up, pick a button and turn it to the left a half turn. Push it in as far as it will go,and tune to your station, then turn the button to the
right to lock it in, and them do the rest. It is easy compared to some that I have seen!
I seen the caps you replaced but one on the tube socket still looked nasty!
You gotta show us the mistake. Thats why we watch. Go thru the process and show us the mess up. We dont blame you we want to.learn.
Hi there what up
AM only? Not sure that is a desirable radio to anyone but a hard-core collector, even if it looks very nice.
If your radio auction does not set a very high minimum bid value, you will be selling it too cheaply, Seth.
If I attended the auction and saw it's AM only, I know I wouldn't even bid. I'm not one of those collectors.
How about adding blue tooth to it? Desirable then?
@@zulumax1 steel cabinet may not be compatible, Seth cannot drill a hole for on/off switch, etc. without damaging cabinet. This would lower the value to a hard-core collector.
@@rayrussell6258 Does this radio even have a back? It has fully isolated circuitry so one isn't needed. No back means no need to drill the cabinet.
He didn't show the back, so that is unclear.
However he always puts bluetooth in radios it seems, but didn't in this case. Must be a reason.