06-25-2009, 10:32 PM
Another thing here; the housing for the LS100A was a thin die casting. I suspect that RCA had multiple vendors for the die cast housings. Some that you'll see are nicely preserved, while othera are suffering from laminar fractures of the metal disintegrating. True, that pot metal usually doesn't have a life span of 80 years, and with the use of a little body filler, they can be made nice again.
Another posibility to have a correct speaker, and an authentic companion for your set, is one of many radio tables, that were offered in those days, with a speaker installed in them. In most of them I've seen, the speaker is an RCA LS100A speaker chassis. That speaker was probably the greatest selling magnetic speaker of all ever made. There was no pot metal in the speaker itself, so they work as well today as they did, 80 years ago.
One other thought too. If you find an RCA 100 speaker, it too, is a correct companion for any of those RCA sets, or whatever one you may have. Many years ago, I bought my Radiola 60 from the original owner, and it had a LS100 with it. Today, the Radiola 60 is on a spacial table, made for that set, where the cabinet feet sit in wells, so that the cabinet is right down on the table, as though the table is a part of the cabinet. The table was made from solid walnut pieces. Pure class!!!
Another posibility to have a correct speaker, and an authentic companion for your set, is one of many radio tables, that were offered in those days, with a speaker installed in them. In most of them I've seen, the speaker is an RCA LS100A speaker chassis. That speaker was probably the greatest selling magnetic speaker of all ever made. There was no pot metal in the speaker itself, so they work as well today as they did, 80 years ago.
One other thought too. If you find an RCA 100 speaker, it too, is a correct companion for any of those RCA sets, or whatever one you may have. Many years ago, I bought my Radiola 60 from the original owner, and it had a LS100 with it. Today, the Radiola 60 is on a spacial table, made for that set, where the cabinet feet sit in wells, so that the cabinet is right down on the table, as though the table is a part of the cabinet. The table was made from solid walnut pieces. Pure class!!!
