[w4rtc]

I was at peddlers mall and this little radio said "please take me home" but I passed on down the isle, but when I got home there it was in the back seat of the car. It had a price of $4.00 on the tag. I looked it over and found the antenna loop was missing. Oh no now what? So I thought for a while then I picked up this piece of 2x6 and cut it to size that would go inside of the cabinet, then I wound some wire around the cut 2x6, then with some glue make the loop, after it dried I pulled it off the 2x6 and there was a good loop. I connected it to the radio and it did not tune, I removed one winding at a time, when two windings were removed it tuned perfectly. The cabinet cleaned up very good. Execpt how do I get the gold paint in the dial numbers, any comments? Thanks for reading
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Joe

[francois8890]

Joe, Good deal,the tubes are worth that. Also very good job on building the loop. Did you just use coated wire and how many loops did you end up with? What kind of glue did you use? Sorry to ask so many questions but it is very interesting and I may want to try it. I have a couple of old sets I found for a couple of bucks that have the loops missing as well.
Frank

[w4rtc]

Hey Frank
Yes the wire I used was just a general purpose emanel coated wire #24. That was what I had in stock I guess 22 or 26 may work but 24 is easy to work with. I started out with 21 turns ( actually I measured a imprint of the old winding and used measurement instead of number of turns which turned out to be 21 turns). It did not tune correctly the trimmer on the variable was all the way out, so I removed turns until it tuned just at the trimmer tightened, and it works perfect I think I removed 2 turns so now I have 19 turns. I cut the block of wood to it would fit inside the cabinet loosely. As you can see I marked the width of the winding on the block. Also notice the staple on the ends of the block I put a 3/16 inch bolt and wound the wire over the bolt, when you are finished winding remove the two bolts and squeeze the loop so it can slip off the wood block. This worked for me and hope it will work for you. The glue I used is Loctite Stik'n Seal it is pretty good glue. Thanks for the interest just take your time removing the loop from the wood block. That's my story and I'm sticking to it

Joe

[Chicago Jimmy]

Joe,
Very nice work and a good find!

[Ron Ramirez]

Excellent job, Joe! Congratulations!

[Arran]

I have two examples of the wooden version of that set, called a model 84 in Canada. I think that the Bakelite version may have been called an 83? There were actually two windings in that loop antenna, one is a primary and the other a secondary, the secondary works as a loop antenna and the primary is to connect an external antenna, that may have been why the turn count was slightly out on your reproduction. The knobs will be the more difficult part to find but they did build a lot of these sets and built many models using the same knobs between 1949 and 1952-53.
Regards
Arran