Just got this Philco cut down cabinet last week from Kenny Richmond and introduced it to my recently restored McMurdo Silver Masterpiece 2
set which has a really nice set of chrome.
This is the rare dual dial, I believe there are 12 tubes, including 3 on the amp.
I am still working on how to mount the 12" pedistal speaker onto the slant board and the amp will require a floor board to to support it but nothing
even I can't figure out how to make it work.
This is actually a very nice player and will get a prominent spot in my display room, AKA the Living Room where I will play it often
If the lacquer on that cabinet is less than a year old, the feet on the radio might leave marks.
Bruce does the Masterpiece II still have 2B6 tubes in the ouitput ? and it's jensen speaker
Another excellent job by Kenny!
I especially like the treatment he gave to the top of the cabinet; it really adds some style and class to it. It looks like it left the factory that way instead of as a 112X!
Hi Don-Yes my set has the original pedistal jensen speaker and is the later version with 2-2B6 output tubes.
My repairman had a heck of a time finding 2 good ones and told me to buy a spare if I ever saw one for sale.
Ironically one came up on ebay last month and I got it NOS for only $15. The pair in the amp cost me about 10 times that for a matched pair.
Absolutely stunning Bruce!!!
Gene
Today was a snow day here due to the big storm so I spent about 8 hours assembling and modifying the Philco 112X cabinet to work with my McMurdo Masterpiece 2 combo.
Setting the main chassis on top was the easy part.
Today I removed the original speaker cross-board and lowered it to the bottom of the cabinet where there were already 2 side support brackets.
Then I bolted the 12" pedistal Jensen to the angled soundboard with the bottom of the stand just touching the bottom board so most of the load was off the bolts. Then I located the amp vertically in the space to the side of the speaker and resting on the new support board. It just barely fit with clearance of the 3 plug in cables.
Next I screwed in a small angle bracket to keep the amp from swinging back from its new location. Then I figured out a way to located the ON/OFF switch to the back of the cabinet so I did not have to drill any holes.
Finally I cleaned up everything with zip ties and picture frame hooks to keep the wires etc in place and away from the amp tubes. Everything I used today was stuff laying around in my misc parts drawer. I used coated wire as the green/red speaker sound connectors between the amp and chassis as I did not have the correct original style pins.
It looks pretty clean and sounds very nice now. I noticed that the angled sound board really throws the speaker sound up and at you when you back up from the cabinet. I am very pleased how this all turned out and at 40 1/2" tall is right about where my other consoles are height wise.
The radio is a dual dial with the left side dial a fine tuner. The 4 knobs are volume, tone, variable IF (I think) and band switch. This is a circa 1934 set with the 2B6 output tubes and 12 tubes total. It sounds as nice now as any of my other radios. makes ya wonder why they kept changing stuff each year for 'improvements'.
Bruce,
Great job! You better not let Ron know where you keep that original Jensen speaker.....
word is he was wanting one pretty bad.
Mike