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Found a 38-690 today
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04-15-2011, 03:59 PM
Never thought when I woke up this morning I would be a new owner of a nice condition 38-690. Decided to go to an estate sale and found this for $135, came with extra tubes and some Philco advertising. Lost $20 last night at poker with the boys but made out today.

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04-15-2011, 04:06 PM
I'm jealous!!!!
Terry
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

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04-15-2011, 05:28 PM
Me too! Super find! Super price!
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04-15-2011, 06:22 PM
Why do you have to tell us about these things? It just makes the rest of us feel bad. Icon_sad No, really that was a great find! Icon_thumbup

Steve
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04-15-2011, 09:18 PM
Once you get that set up, running, and aligned, you'll have a magnificent thunder generator. You'll have power and fidelity that the other big mainline brands didn't offer.

Indeed, you made out like a bandit on the set, and can savor your luck for a long time.

Congrats!
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04-16-2011, 05:33 PM
Thanks everybody, here two pictures.

[Image: http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph2.jpg]

[Image: http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph1.jpg]
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04-16-2011, 07:14 PM
Hmph! Some people have all the luck!

Seriously, though...congratulations on your find, Mark! Icon_smile
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04-17-2011, 09:05 AM
$135? I've a good mind to report you for theft... Icon_lol
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04-17-2011, 04:18 PM
$135, Holy Handgrenades! Icon_clap

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04-17-2011, 04:24 PM
WOW! Icon_eek
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04-17-2011, 04:44 PM
Looks pretty nice and at a great price! Let us know how the restoration goes.
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04-17-2011, 06:34 PM
Icon_eek look at all the speakers on that thing! My 47 only has one Icon_crazy
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04-17-2011, 07:37 PM
Marsupial Wrote:Icon_eek look at all the speakers on that thing! My 47 only has one Icon_crazy
It has three speakers. The other devices have cones, but are not speakers and do not have voice coils. As I understand it, they serve to cancel vibrations from the cabinet.
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04-17-2011, 08:22 PM
So, they're early "drone cones", sans voice & fieldcoils? My Altec 890C Bolero speakers each have a 10" speaker and a 10" "passive radiator".

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04-18-2011, 12:17 AM
You are one lucky dog! Icon_thumbup I never seem to find higher ended radios here. Seems everyone was either broke in my area during the depression or no-one wanted high end radios. Now in the county my friend lives in, it was easy to find high or at least higher ended radios at sales. Now it is a poor county, so go figure. Icon_crazy
No matter where you go, there you are.
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