01-07-2025, 12:23 AM
462ron, what a nice story, thank you for sharing it!
I was only about to find two articles from old magazines talking about using car radios as table radios.
One was from 1945 and it used I suppose a Buick "all in one style" radio but it had a field coil speaker.
They said to build a separate box with a PM speaker in it, remove the vibrator, feed it 6v AC from a beefy filament transformer, mount the radio in the drawer of a desk and drive the new speaker with an umbilical.
The other article is "Junk the car save the radio" from 1964 and goes into merits on how a trip to a junk yard and $10 ($100 in 2024 cash)
you can get a well built steel cased push-pull long distance radio with a nice speaker that would be wayyy better than an AA5 plastic PoS.
Homemade stuff made by 50s or 60s dad or uncle is the best of the best!
I was only about to find two articles from old magazines talking about using car radios as table radios.
One was from 1945 and it used I suppose a Buick "all in one style" radio but it had a field coil speaker.
They said to build a separate box with a PM speaker in it, remove the vibrator, feed it 6v AC from a beefy filament transformer, mount the radio in the drawer of a desk and drive the new speaker with an umbilical.
The other article is "Junk the car save the radio" from 1964 and goes into merits on how a trip to a junk yard and $10 ($100 in 2024 cash)
you can get a well built steel cased push-pull long distance radio with a nice speaker that would be wayyy better than an AA5 plastic PoS.
Homemade stuff made by 50s or 60s dad or uncle is the best of the best!
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