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Unidentified Silvertone
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04-21-2012, 10:54 PM
Silvertone, or probably Colonial radio under contract, must have used the type #45s as a cost saving measure and as a bit of "Tube Stuffing" since they were more or less obsolete tubes by 1932. A type 83 sounds strange as it's a mercury vapor rectifier, are you sure it isn't an 83V? A 5Z3 sounds more typical for the power requirements, though maybe they used an 83V on a different production run?
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Unidentified Silvertone - by Jayce - 04-21-2012, 05:55 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by Carl Travis - 04-21-2012, 07:14 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by TA Forbes - 04-21-2012, 08:11 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by John R - 04-21-2012, 09:37 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by Arran - 04-21-2012, 10:54 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by TA Forbes - 04-22-2012, 10:13 AM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by codefox1 - 04-22-2012, 12:46 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by Jayce - 04-22-2012, 05:58 PM
RE: Unidentified Silvertone - by TA Forbes - 04-24-2012, 04:40 AM



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