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Zenith 5-S-127
#1

My wife found this one locally a couple months ago for a ridiculously low price.  It has been refinished, but done tastefully, IMHO. 

We just got it back from our electronics guy, and here she is.  Plays great and grabs onto stations very well.


[Image: https://i.imgur.com/q3zdMrA.jpg?1]

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#2

Great radio, congratulations.
#3

Great radio, the first old radio given to me by good friends of the family when I was a young teen.  I later restored the chassis and have spent many hours listening to it.  One minor correction, it is a 5-S-127.

Poor cell phone photo of mine wearing original finish:

   

John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"
#4

Very good looking radio.

If I am not mistaking, there is some other radio that looks very close to this one (not a Z).

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#5

The non-Zenith look alike that comes to mind is a Stromberg-Carlson Model 60:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/stromberg_60.html

I like the 5-S-127. But, it takes a lot of turning to get from one end of the dial to the other.

I have about 1 and 3/4 of them.

The first is a "chimera" of sorts. It's the first "antique" radio I bought and a 5-F-134 cabinet (same except for battery holder) and a 6-S-229 (5638) chassis. For now it contains another 6-S-229 chassis I restored. I have a 5-tube chassis for it in the pipeline.

The second is an empty cabinet that needs to be repaired/refinished, a chassis bought separately that needs to be restored, 3 of the 4 knobs and no speaker, at least not the correct speaker. The speakers seem hard to come by.

Can't think of anything witty.
Greg O.
Whitehall, PA
#6

Greg


Yes, this is starting at 9 tubes they introduced the motor to drive the tuning gear.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.




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