deforest crosley radio
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:01 pm
a few pics of my most recent radio find.
It looks relatively untouched. still has the cloth cord.
Its quite heavy despite it's small size. I took the pics in low light so it didn't really show how nice the cabinet finish is but it's in pretty decent shape.
around this time some radios used a line cord resister AKA curtain burner. the cords were in fact a resistor. I'm not sure if that's the case with this particular set. its always a bit of a decision to keep the line cord or replace it for safety. If I restore it Ill add a new fuse and change the capacitors, check all the resistors, then align it.
it has a wire for an antenna. I dont think it ever had a back , most didn't but it may have. It will need to be conected to some sort of an antenna to work properly. I have a few similar small heavy sets from the era. They arent; particularily pricey I paid $45 for this one.
Since it was made before 60hz power became standard, some areas lke maybe new yourk were on 25 cycle power because of that many of these old radios have giant power transformers. by changing to 60 hz a lot of iron was saved and they became a lot lighter.
Its actually pretty crammed with components. this was a compact radio for it's day.
Im guessing about 1933 but could be a couple of years out. depression years. the schematic will probably date it more accurately. there is a lot of similarities between rogers, deforest Crosley and Majestic. It will be a superhetrodyne. you can see how the tubes have metal cans this is to reduce interference between the stages. often they are found to be missing.
these radios didn't have station or frequency on the dial, instead they simply show a scale maybe 10 to 50 or something so you'd know where the stations you like are but with no reference to the actual frequency.
It looks relatively untouched. still has the cloth cord.
Its quite heavy despite it's small size. I took the pics in low light so it didn't really show how nice the cabinet finish is but it's in pretty decent shape.
around this time some radios used a line cord resister AKA curtain burner. the cords were in fact a resistor. I'm not sure if that's the case with this particular set. its always a bit of a decision to keep the line cord or replace it for safety. If I restore it Ill add a new fuse and change the capacitors, check all the resistors, then align it.
it has a wire for an antenna. I dont think it ever had a back , most didn't but it may have. It will need to be conected to some sort of an antenna to work properly. I have a few similar small heavy sets from the era. They arent; particularily pricey I paid $45 for this one.
Since it was made before 60hz power became standard, some areas lke maybe new yourk were on 25 cycle power because of that many of these old radios have giant power transformers. by changing to 60 hz a lot of iron was saved and they became a lot lighter.
Its actually pretty crammed with components. this was a compact radio for it's day.
Im guessing about 1933 but could be a couple of years out. depression years. the schematic will probably date it more accurately. there is a lot of similarities between rogers, deforest Crosley and Majestic. It will be a superhetrodyne. you can see how the tubes have metal cans this is to reduce interference between the stages. often they are found to be missing.
these radios didn't have station or frequency on the dial, instead they simply show a scale maybe 10 to 50 or something so you'd know where the stations you like are but with no reference to the actual frequency.