Hi and Merry Christmas!

Christmas came early for me today. I came across a complete Zenith 9-S-262 shutter dial console for very little $$. I pulled out the chassis a little while ago and found the tuning belts are gone. Does anyone know of a source for the belts? There are two of them; one operates the tuning condenser and the other operates some mechanisim at the back of the chassis that I haven't identified yet.

Jeff S.

:Hi and Merry Christmas!
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:Christmas came early for me today. I came across a complete Zenith 9-S-262 shutter dial console for very little $$. I pulled out the chassis a little while ago and found the tuning belts are gone. Does anyone know of a source for the belts? There are two of them; one operates the tuning condenser and the other operates some mechanisim at the back of the chassis that I haven't identified yet.
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:Jeff S.
Hi Jeff
Try www.radiodaze.com or www.tubesandmore.com
Mark

RadioDaze sells belting material that you cut and splice with super glue. I've used it successfully.

::Hi and Merry Christmas!
::
::Christmas came early for me today. I came across a complete Zenith 9-S-262 shutter dial console for very little $$. I pulled out the chassis a little while ago and found the tuning belts are gone. Does anyone know of a source for the belts? There are two of them; one operates the tuning condenser and the other operates some mechanisim at the back of the chassis that I haven't identified yet.
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::Jeff S.
:Hi Jeff
: Try www.radiodaze.com or www.tubesandmore.com
:Mark

Perhaps it is a flywheel? I recall working on a Zenith, not a shutterdial, that had a belt to the tuner, and then a belt to a flywheel (or something like that). The places mentioned sell belts that will work. I have found that rubber O rings work well, too. They can be found at your hardware store. Sewing machine stores sell rubber O ring belts as well. Some guy on here used a spring type belt like found on a motion picture projector. Sounds like a fairly good idea to me.

Thomas

:Perhaps it is a flywheel? I recall working on a Zenith, not a shutterdial, that had a belt to the tuner, and then a belt to a flywheel (or something like that). The places mentioned sell belts that will work. I have found that rubber O rings work well, too. They can be found at your hardware store. Sewing machine stores sell rubber O ring belts as well. Some guy on here used a spring type belt like found on a motion picture projector. Sounds like a fairly good idea to me.
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:Thomas
Hi Thomas
"O" rings! hey thats a neat idea! I never thought about those, going to have to try that myself sometime.
Mark

It appears the wheel toward the back of the chassis connects to a small electric motor. The motor is operated either forward or reverse by a knob on a very small shaft in front of the tuning dial (the shaft goes down the center of the hollow tuning shaft). A motorized tuner! This is the gift that keeps on giving....

I also have a Zenith 10-S-135 that has one of those heavy wheels on the tuning shaft. If you spin the tuning knob, it keeps on turning because of the intertia from the heavy wheel. When I turn the tuning condenser in the 9-S, it seems to keep moving on its own, but I haven't taken enough parts off it it to see what all is connected to the pulley on the tuning condenser.

I'll have to take a look at the O ring selection at the local hardware stores and see what I can find.

Thanks,

Jeff S.

Motorized tuners are a lot of fun! They make you feel like you're living in the future. Of course when you really think about it, it seems rediculous that you'd need a huge motor and switch assembly to do what a tiny microchip does to-day, but I don't think that an automatic tuning (push-button) digital radio can give quite the thrill that a motorized tuner of the 1930s can give. ....Deep throbbing bass from the speaker, beautiful glow from the dial, and an assortment of impressive mechanical noises when you tune in a station!

T.