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Meissner
#1

I'm working on posting pics and a video of the 4 Meissners that I have been lucky enough to accumulate:

https://www.russoldradios.com/blog

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#2

updated

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#3

Russ;
  I have a Meissner, but it isn't a high end tuner, it's a radio-phonograph-cutter portable. Meissner obviously made the radio chassis and coils, but I think the record player/cutter was made by General Industries. I would like to find a diagram of the cutter as I'm not sure if there are pieces missing.
Regards
Arran
#4

Those Meissners were made by Thordarson-Meissner not too far from here, in Mt. Carmel, Illinois.

Thordarson is still in business but they have moved their headquarters to North Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
#5

I also have a Signal - Shifter EX and a couple of smaller Meissners. I noted that the power trans on one said Meissner - Thordarson, or in reverse.

Meissner is not listed in the Nostalgia Air/Riders database BUT they are in vols. 18 and 19.

And here is some kit info.

http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radio...l#meissner

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#6

Russ, Ron;
  I noticed that Meissner used to post a lot of ads in many magazines during the post war period promoting the use of their chassis as replacements in the cabinets of older radios. I don't think that Meissner ever manufactured and marketed complete factory produced units with cabinet the way E.H Scott or Midwest did, I think they only produced and sold chassis with ancillary items like speakers. If they did produce complete sets, such as radio-phono combo units they would probably be very rare. Come to think of it I don't think I have ever seen one of their chassis retrofited into a pre war radio cabinet, in spite of the magazine ads, I did see one that was fitted into a home made cabinet, basically in a box playing the role of a component tuner amplifier, though I am sure that it happened.
Regards
Arran
#7

You might be right, or at least I thought so prior to seeing some of those ads that seem to show radios with cabinets. I need to do some more research.

This actually comes to the heart of my decision to restore these radios. Like a Scott or McMurdo Silver, it is acceptable to display one of these radios in almost any cabinet - or without one - or with one that displays the radio chassis (Clifton) and consider them to be as sold. And since I have no cabinets, figuring out a Clifton-like display would be my next consideration.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#8

There are pictures of the 2961 cabinet in Rider's 19.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/




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