Today's find. 40-205 - Printable Version
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Today's find. 40-205 - rdnzl - 01-26-2020
Found this today for. After a quick dusting and a little Olde English, she doesn't look half bad. IT plays too. I know, I know.....I will get it restored. But when I went to pick it up, they had it playing. It sounded great, with lots of volume, and good tone. Picked up a ton of stations, unlike some of my other radios.
Its a 40-205xx. Not sure of the proper suffix letters. I think this might be the one that took the wireless remote. Not sure.
I'm kind of on a roll this week.
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RE: Today's find. 40-205 - Paul Philco322 - 01-26-2020
You've have the radio bug, take 2 tubes and call the radio doctor in the morning. Paul
RE: Today's find. 40-205 - OldRestorer - 01-26-2020
Oooh,
That is pretty! It even has the indicator jewel still...
Vey nice
Kirk
RE: Today's find. 40-205 - morzh - 01-26-2020
Nice looking...
RE: Today's find. 40-205 - rdnzl - 01-26-2020
Anybody here own one? The volume is locked on this one. I think it has something to do with the Mystery Control setup. There is a little prong that sticks out and doesn't let the volume dial move more than a 1/4 inch or so. I can see that if it wasn't sticking out, the dial would spin freely. I can't get it to move out of the way.
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RE: Today's find. 40-205 - rdnzl - 01-26-2020
Ok follks.....REVELATION TIME!!!!!!
The volume wheel is just an up and down SWITCH!!!! I was expecting it to be a rheostat with a lot of movement, but it just goes UP a little bit and DOWN a little bit, to make contact with what is seen in my photo. That prong sticking out is what moves it up and down a little bit to make contact. I needed to WAIT for the motor to turn the volume up or down. AND I wondered how you turn it off because there's no on off switch. Guess what? I hold DOWN on the wheel until the volume goes all the way off, and them wait a few seconds, and the power is turned off. SO there is nothing wrong with the volume switch, it was just OPERATOR ERROR.
RE: Today's find. 40-205 - Bill Bacco - 01-27-2020
Nice radio. It looks in really good shape. Nice find! Thanks for sharing.
RE: Today's find. 40-205 - Chas - 01-28-2020
The power volume control uses a 2 ph motor. By exchanging the motor condenser connections the rotation changes, that is what the up/down volume control does.
Outside of other possible mechanical issues, the condenser for the motor usually dries up so no rotation or very little torque...
It is a non-polarized but I have used two regular electrolytics back to back, doubles the voltage rating and halves the mf rating...
If there is a large, open wire loop at the bottom of the cabinet, that is the receive antenna for the wireless remote...
YMMV
Chas