I have a Trav-Ler lowboy radio. I'm trying to find a schematic for it. However, I'm unable to find the model number. The metal tag on the back is completely worn. It will be a beautiful piece when restored - has two matched doors that open on the front. As you can tell, I'm not the one that will do the restoring as I have little knowledge. I've checked various sites online to try to match photos but this is apparently not one that is well known. If what I'm counting in the back are all considered tubes, I'd guess that it has 11. I do have photos of it. If anyone thinks they might recognize it, I'll be happy to send them via e-mail. I do appreciate any assistance.

Hi Dorothy

Listing those 11 tube types may help identify the model?

Norm

:I have a Trav-Ler lowboy radio. I'm trying to find a schematic for it. However, I'm unable to find the model number. The metal tag on the back is completely worn. It will be a beautiful piece when restored - has two matched doors that open on the front. As you can tell, I'm not the one that will do the restoring as I have little knowledge. I've checked various sites online to try to match photos but this is apparently not one that is well known. If what I'm counting in the back are all considered tubes, I'd guess that it has 11. I do have photos of it. If anyone thinks they might recognize it, I'll be happy to send them via e-mail. I do appreciate any assistance.

See if this Model matches it:

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByModel/916/M0021916.pdf

It is an 11 tube Trav-ler model. To see if this is the one, check to see if the tube lineup matches.

:I have a Trav-Ler lowboy radio. I'm trying to find a schematic for it. However, I'm unable to find the model number. The metal tag on the back is completely worn. It will be a beautiful piece when restored - has two matched doors that open on the front. As you can tell, I'm not the one that will do the restoring as I have little knowledge. I've checked various sites online to try to match photos but this is apparently not one that is well known. If what I'm counting in the back are all considered tubes, I'd guess that it has 11. I do have photos of it. If anyone thinks they might recognize it, I'll be happy to send them via e-mail. I do appreciate any assistance.

Thanks so much. I printed out the schematic and went looking at the radio again. I'm a novice at this. I was told 11 tubes. What I find is five tubes that I can see. One is 4-pin and marked 80 on the socket. Two are 4-pin and marked 27. Two are 5-pin and marked 47. All five appear to be replacements. There are three "cans" that can be opened and are attached by wires at the top to another item (transformer?). Two large cans and two small ones are totally enclosed and I cannot get to the screws to see if they contain tubes inside.

I appreciate the location of the schematics.

If the cans have screws, then they are likely enclosing either an RF transformer or an audio transformer. A can over a tube (shield) will pull off easily (sometimes with difficulty), or will be a multi-pieced unit that can be disassembled and removed from the tube. If there is a wire coming out of the can top, and the can encloses a tube, this wire goes to a terminal on top of the tube. Usually it must be removed from the tube terminal before the shield may be removed. Sometimes you must remove the shield in order to get to where the wire fastens to the tube. In that case, removal of the wire is obviously not necessary for shield removal.

If you pull a "can" off and it exposes a tube socket, then there was likely a tube there, especially if a tube number is printed on the socket. The wire that goes into the can is then the wire that would connect to the top of the tube.

On occasion some radio designs shielded several tubes and circuitry within metal boxes. If the metal cans you describe as held together with screws are rather large, they may contain some more tubes. They may contain other devices such as a tuning condenser (device with many plates that moves when you tune in stations.

Thomas

:Thanks so much. I printed out the schematic and went looking at the radio again. I'm a novice at this. I was told 11 tubes. What I find is five tubes that I can see. One is 4-pin and marked 80 on the socket. Two are 4-pin and marked 27. Two are 5-pin and marked 47. All five appear to be replacements. There are three "cans" that can be opened and are attached by wires at the top to another item (transformer?). Two large cans and two small ones are totally enclosed and I cannot get to the screws to see if they contain tubes inside.
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:I appreciate the location of the schematics.