09-01-2026, 06:51 PM
Interesting set in the fact that it contains Octals, Loctals and Miniatures.
A lot of sets from small manufacturers made running changes from Octals to miniatures (7 Pin) using wafer type miniature sockets that were large enough to use the holes punched in the chassis for octal sockets, and implement the "new" miniature tubes as their supply of octals dried out. Even RCA did this. There were some 1948 or so models with metal octal tubes for the converter, IF and detector / 1st AF only to have a 35W4 rectifier and 50B5 (soon replaced by 50C5) output tubes. It is interesting that this set was punched to use the miniature socket for the 12BA6 as the IF tube.
A lot of sets from small manufacturers made running changes from Octals to miniatures (7 Pin) using wafer type miniature sockets that were large enough to use the holes punched in the chassis for octal sockets, and implement the "new" miniature tubes as their supply of octals dried out. Even RCA did this. There were some 1948 or so models with metal octal tubes for the converter, IF and detector / 1st AF only to have a 35W4 rectifier and 50B5 (soon replaced by 50C5) output tubes. It is interesting that this set was punched to use the miniature socket for the 12BA6 as the IF tube.
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