I have posted a blog on the McMurdo Silver Masterpiece V that I got in trade for doing the electrical restoration on the Strat.
It is a really nice radio - missing the 18" speaker of course. but the two 12" Jensen's sound good.
If anybody has any comments that they would like to include - for the good of the public - go ahead. Give me something that I can cut and paste. A picture of the original Super Giant might be good too.
http://www.russoldradios.com/blog/mcmurd...-from-1935
Russ
Hey, a blog about a
real radio!
My MP VI does not have an original Super-Giant, either. Thanks to my late friend Doug Houston, I do have an 18 inch Jensen theatre speaker. I will have to have its field coil redone to properly work in the MP VI. In appearance, it is nearly identical to the Super-Giant - only the stand is flat black, and the sticker is different. Plus it has screw terminals in back of the stand for field and voice coil, something the genuine Super-Giant did not have.
I would like to evaluate the 18" Jensen. It would seem that a radio equipped without a tweeter would have a poor top end?
It would seem so. My speaker, being as how it was a theatre speaker, does not have the hard inner portion of the cone which the Super-Giants have.
For those not familiar with this speaker but knowledgeable on Philco speakers, the Super-Giant's cone was similar to the Philco U-9 and most W series speakers (116X, 680X, 37/38-116, 37/38-690) in that the inner portion of the speaker cone was made of a different, harder material than was the outer part of the cone.
And as I recall, a tweeter was optional with the MP V and MP VI. My Clifton cabinet had no hole cut for a tweeter, so apparently it never had one either.
I think that very few came with the tweeter.
Yeah the 37-116 has that cone with the stiffer inside portion.
One feature that I have seen in some sets is a whizzer cone in the center of the main cone, I think I saw a Canadian Westinghouse speaker that had one.
Regards
Arran
Hi Ron
Where did you source your coil rewind please ?