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Can someone tell me what this cabinet is for? Unfortunately, it is already gutted and the owner has no idea where the guts are.........What radios could provide the guts for this beast?
Thanks, Steve
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I'm going to take a guess that the cabinet used to be for a Silvertone set, but I could be wrong. In any event it was a private label store brand set but looking over photos of the Silvertone sets from about 1937-38 is a good place to start.
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I think it's the console version of this 8-tube radio:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sears_roeb_4610.html
I've seen a couple of the consoles; my feeling is they're not not terribly uncommon. However, I can't find a picture of one right now.
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I have to guess that the innards for that radio might a tough item to find....
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If you go to RadioMuseum and type 101.482 in the simple search box, you'll see there are 3 radios that used that chassis, the 4789 console and 2 table radios. My impression is they're not terribly uncommon radios.
However, you would need the knobs, the escutcheons, the speaker, the grill cloth AND the chassis. The console speaker is likely larger than the table-model speaker; if there's a part specific to the console, the speaker would be it. To find all those altogether, you're likely buying a whole radio, in which case you get a cabinet too.
If you already had a complete one with the cabinet damaged beyond repair, that would be one thing. But buying just the cabinet, and hoping some day one with a downer cabinet would materialize, that's a different thing. I know a guy who had a pristine, original Stromberg-Carlson 635 chassis, and it took him 17 years to find a pristine, original cabinet. And that's a model that comes up on eBay once or twice a month! It may be worth it if it was factory-mint like his. But such is not the case here...
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I have also wondered about making an ersatz escutcheon with small molding or the like, I do not have the skill, wonder if you could make one passable.
Paul
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Are you still looking for the original innards of this cabinet. I might be able to help. If everything goes as planned, I will have it all except the cabinet face plate that is missing on yours. LMK, if you are still looking?
V/R
Nicholas Tomson