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Topic: 5F2-A In An Antique Radio Cabinet Build |
Rich Hlaves
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Wildomar, California, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2013 2:05 pm |
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Several months back I posted in "wanted to buy" looking for an old radio cabinet to build a livingroom amp out of. Thanks to all who replied. There were some very generous offers made to me but shipping was prohibitive. I found a mid 30s Stromberg-Carlson floor model locally on CL that was quite dead and started the project.
Here is the cabinet before any clean up or grill replacement. The original grill was rotten and just falling apart.
The chassis was covered with almost 80 years of dust, funk and toxic who knows what.
There is the cab cleaned up, grill replaced but not refinished with the cleaned up chassis being test fitted. I am keeping the original dial as the pilot lamp!
A Jensen C10Q was selected for the speaker. The radio orinally had a 7 1/2" field coil speaker so a mod to the baffle board was needed to mount the new speaker. I did this while changine the grill cloth. I found a nice vintage herringbone pattern at AES.
Here is the top of the chassis. I've cleaned it up and mounted the PT, OT and tube sockets. I found some real nice tube socket hole covers at Weber. Trannies are Heyboer.
Bottom shot of the chassis with the populated board ready to be mounted,5F2-A Tweed Princeton circuit. I used this circuit as I can utilizes all the holes in the front of the cabinet. Volume, tone, a rotary power switch with lever and the original big knob that tuned the radio.
I really like the dial. A classy pilot lamp lens it will make. This is as far as I've gotten with this. All that remains is some mechanical like trimming pot shafts to length, drilling the rear pannel for jacks etc then wire it up!
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Bill A. Moore
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2013 3:07 pm
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Looks nice Rich! Thanks for sharing!
Last summer a friend brought me several old radios, a couple are just chassis, but one is a radio/turntable. I have thoughts of an amp build installing a 10 in place of the turntable. Have too many projects for now though. |
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Rich Hlaves
From:
Wildomar, California, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2013 3:28 pm
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Hi hear ya on too many projects. This should have been done 3-4 months ago but things keep getting in the way. Thanks for the kind words.
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Jim Newberry
From:
Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 17 Jan 2013 1:32 pm
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Nice Rich. I'm pretty close to doing something similar. I've got a 5F2A that I'm going to put in an old tweed suitcase, but I like the radio cabinet idea!
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