Check out the 12Y or the 10Y1 in the radio attic archives. Does it look like either one? Here is the url for the 12Y:
http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.php?radio=6390
Yes, Yes!!! Motorola model 12Y. That is the very radio. In another post on this site, it was implied that I might have been indulging in spirits when I saw that radio. Man, would that be a restoration project or what. Mind you, it is in pretty bad shape. The hotel the bar is in was built in 1894, so the radio might have been sitting there since nineteen thirtysomething,when it was built for all I know. the cabinet looks like it has been in a train wreck, gouges, grill cloth torn, cigarette burns, dents, etc, etc,. Now, if I do manage to get this monster and bring it home, where can I find a good divorce lawyer?
Lewis
If you get this set, I have a 12Y parts chassis.
David
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Lewis: Sounds like you're deep in the grip of the DT's (Delusion by Tubes)enhanced by prolonged inhalation of solder smoke and laquer fumes. Take a deep breath and follow the 12-step RA (Radio-holics Anonymous) method. 1-Do I really NEED it or just WANT it? 2-Will it make me a recluse and take me away from friends and family? 3-Will my wife leave me? 4-Will it fit in the garage under my 50 other project radios? 5-How long after I'm gone will it take for my estate to donate it to Good Will? - etc. Others are encouraged to add to the list. Watson
Watson:
If you have to ask questions like that, you dont know very much about radio people. Of course I don't need it. Of course it will make me a recluse. My wife probably won't leave me, but she sure will threaten to a few hundred times. Of course I don't have room for it in the garage with the other projects. And, finally, she will probably bury me in the cabinet and save the cost of a coffin. But, to get serious, I for sure am not going to be able to get involved with this monster right now, as the reason we were travelling around Georgia was to look for a place to move away from Atlanta, now that I am retired and have no reason to stay around here, and common sense told me (just before she left for work this morning), we don't need another six cubic feet of radio to haul to a new house, and I should start thinking of what I want to toss and what to move among the collection of junk I have amassed over the past fifty years, and I have to admit she has a good point.
Lewis
Lewis: You gravely misinterpret me:>). I'm suggesting how a RATIONAL person would handle such a dilemma - however, I know most radio collectors aren't necessarily rational. I, myself, am so afflicted and still have a hard time turning down the rustiest boat anchor if it is a good deal. But, I'm to a point now - no more room - that I do run a mental excercise before laying cash on the barrel head and have passed up several radios recently. Now, only the most interesting sets get my attention. Watson
PS - did you make it to the Lawerenceville hamfest?
Negative on the hamfest. Are you in the Atlanta area?
Lewis
PS - I started my career At Delta in radio, but later that expanded to include all electronics as well as electrical===the other mechanics thought we avionics types were so oddball and weird they named us "Coneheads" from Sat Night Live.
marv
:::The wife and I were traveling around in East Georgia yesterday, and stopped in an old hotel bar for a drink, and they had an old Motorola radio, a large console, and it had five, I think control knobs sticking out the front, but it also has about fifteen or twenty buttons arranged in a circle around a clear plastic dial, I couldn't see for sure but I assume the frequency pointer is inside the clear plastic. Does this radio ring a bell with anyone? It looks like it might have a 12" dynamic speaker, what I could see through the torn grill cloth, it is in a handsome cabinet (well, it was handsome at one time) and looks as if it is or could be a very good radio. Before I get any ideas about procuring it, I would like to know a little more about it.
:::TNX,
:::Lewis
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::Check out the 12Y or the 10Y1 in the radio attic archives. Does it look like either one? Here is the url for the 12Y:
::
::http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.php?radio=6390
:
:Yes, Yes!!! Motorola model 12Y. That is the very radio. In another post on this site, it was implied that I might have been indulging in spirits when I saw that radio. Man, would that be a restoration project or what. Mind you, it is in pretty bad shape. The hotel the bar is in was built in 1894, so the radio might have been sitting there since nineteen thirtysomething,when it was built for all I know. the cabinet looks like it has been in a train wreck, gouges, grill cloth torn, cigarette burns, dents, etc, etc,. Now, if I do manage to get this monster and bring it home, where can I find a good divorce lawyer?
:Lewis
If you get dizzy looking at the knobs, try figuring out the schematic of the thing. I have gotten this far: the tertiary winding in the motor is like a transformer winding that connects to a diode plate in the IF amplfier tube (yes, the IF amp has diode plates in it) to produce a negative Voltage that mutes the audio by biasing the first audio tube to cutoff, and yes, that is a FM discriminator circuit hooked to the IF amplifier circuit, that produces an AFC Voltage to fine tune the station because of the way the motor tunes the tuning capacitor, it only gets the cap close to the station and the AFC fine tunes it. Now that I've figured out that much, I think I will have a drink even if it only 2:30 PM in Atlanta.
Lewis
P. S. about divorce court, my first bi...er, I mean wife, cleaned me out so completely I was stealing toilet paper from Delta and using my airline pass to get free airline food to save money.
L. L.
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::::The wife and I were traveling around in East Georgia yesterday, and stopped in an old hotel bar for a drink, and they had an old Motorola radio, a large console, and it had five, I think control knobs sticking out the front, but it also has about fifteen or twenty buttons arranged in a circle around a clear plastic dial, I couldn't see for sure but I assume the frequency pointer is inside the clear plastic. Does this radio ring a bell with anyone? It looks like it might have a 12" dynamic speaker, what I could see through the torn grill cloth, it is in a handsome cabinet (well, it was handsome at one time) and looks as if it is or could be a very good radio. Before I get any ideas about procuring it, I would like to know a little more about it.
::::TNX,
::::Lewis
:::
:::Check out the 12Y or the 10Y1 in the radio attic archives. Does it look like either one? Here is the url for the 12Y:
:::
:::http://radioatticarchives.com/radio.php?radio=6390
::
::Yes, Yes!!! Motorola model 12Y. That is the very radio. In another post on this site, it was implied that I might have been indulging in spirits when I saw that radio. Man, would that be a restoration project or what. Mind you, it is in pretty bad shape. The hotel the bar is in was built in 1894, so the radio might have been sitting there since nineteen thirtysomething,when it was built for all I know. the cabinet looks like it has been in a train wreck, gouges, grill cloth torn, cigarette burns, dents, etc, etc,. Now, if I do manage to get this monster and bring it home, where can I find a good divorce lawyer?
::Lewis