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My Zenith Zephyr
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06-06-2018, 09:34 PM
I thought I'd share a photo of one of my other radios.

It's a Zenith Zephyr Model 6S157.

It's fully restored. Although I did next to nothing to the cabinet.

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06-06-2018, 10:13 PM
Beautiful radio !
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06-07-2018, 05:54 AM
WOW really nice... Icon_thumbup Icon_thumbup
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06-07-2018, 12:25 PM
It's just a 6 tuber, but it sounds real nice. Sometimes I hook up a Bluetooth receiver to the phono jack it has, and play music off of my laptop through the Zephyr. I have even used that setup to stream old radio shows from the 30's and 40's to it.
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06-07-2018, 01:29 PM
Beautiful cabinet, I've always liked the '37 Zenith dials.  I've got a pretty cool book of 1937 Zenith matches:

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06-07-2018, 07:03 PM
That is one incredible looking radio!!!  Icon_thumbup
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