Never thought when I woke up this morning I would be a new owner of a nice condition 38-690. Decided to go to an estate sale and found this for $135, came with extra tubes and some Philco advertising. Lost $20 last night at poker with the boys but made out today.
Mark
Me too! Super find! Super price!
Why do you have to tell us about these things? It just makes the rest of us feel bad.
No, really that was a great find!
Steve
Once you get that set up, running, and aligned, you'll have a magnificent thunder generator. You'll have power and fidelity that the other big mainline brands didn't offer.
Indeed, you made out like a bandit on the set, and can savor your luck for a long time.
Congrats!
Thanks everybody, here two pictures.
![[Image: ph2.jpg]](http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph2.jpg)
![[Image: ph1.jpg]](http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph1.jpg)
Hmph! Some people have all the luck!
Seriously, though...congratulations on your find, Mark!
$135? I've a good mind to report you for theft...
$135, Holy Handgrenades!
Mike
WOW!
Looks pretty nice and at a great price! Let us know how the restoration goes.
look at all the speakers on that thing! My 47 only has one
Marsupial Wrote: look at all the speakers on that thing! My 47 only has one
It has three speakers. The other devices have cones, but are not speakers and do not have voice coils. As I understand it, they serve to cancel vibrations from the cabinet.
So, they're early "drone cones", sans voice & fieldcoils? My Altec 890C Bolero speakers each have a 10" speaker and a 10" "passive radiator".
Mike
You are one lucky dog!
I never seem to find higher ended radios here. Seems everyone was either broke in my area during the depression or no-one wanted high end radios. Now in the county my friend lives in, it was easy to find high or at least higher ended radios at sales. Now it is a poor county, so go figure.