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Bought 39-72
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Hi Raymond and welcome!!!
Throw some batteries in that bad boy and you'll be ready for the beach or a camping trip!!! One a bit of a more serious note I'd recommend replacement of the paper and electrolytic cap in this guy. If not and you got some leaky ones in there it will run down your B batteries in a hurry. That gets expensive!!!

As for the original battery I doubt you can get it anymore and if you could it would run like $40-50 bucks. There's Bill the Batterymaker. He can build a original looking battery box to snap in your new 9V and D cells and it will plug right into your set. Don't know what it would run but he does nice work!

If you have milliamper meter hook in series with your B supply. If all is good (no leakage from your caps) it should draw about 8.5ma or so with 90V B and 1.5V A volts. The service into can be found here:http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByModel/303/M0013303.pdf That's for a 39-71 there about the same.
Have fun w/it
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!

Terry


Messages In This Thread
Bought 39-72 - by raymondl11 - 07-24-2011, 10:22 PM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by BILL - 07-25-2011, 10:29 AM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by 7estatdef - 07-25-2011, 03:36 PM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by Music in a bottle - 07-26-2011, 01:45 PM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by raymondl11 - 07-28-2011, 09:11 PM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by 7estatdef - 07-28-2011, 10:49 PM
Re: Bought 39-72 - by Arran - 07-29-2011, 05:00 PM



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