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Atwater Kent Kiel Radio Table
#1

I just picked up a Kiel Radio Table with a model 55C chassis in it.  Does anyone know who to tell if it's a late model or an early model?  I have found drawing on but some of the voltage test points are different, so I think I need to figure it out, so I know which drawing to use.   Although there are not too many differences between the two it appears.  Can it be broken down based on the serial number?

Philco's 
86 Low Boy     71B      42-321T
90 High Boy    52B      46-1203
95 High Boy    118B     48-214     
112X Console     60B       48-206
118X Console     84B       49-506
41-608P Console   610B   76 High Boy
41-265 Console   37-89B   370LZ
52GC                38-35B
20 Baby Grand   38-10T
70 Baby Grand   41-221CI

#2

If you are a FB member there's a group for that.

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
#3

I see from the replies you've gotten on FB there's no definitive answer to your question. A lot of changes though a production run for any number of reasons go undocumented. In the early '30s cost could be a good motivation or better performance.

GL w/your AK and may your transformer failures be few.

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
#4

Here is a discussion of the changes:

https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtop...=6&t=70452

All links are now dead. Try web archive for a copy of the entire atwater-kent web site.

etorre, an ARF member is currently restoring an A-K 55.

GL

Chas

Pliny the younger
“nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat”
#5

Thanks to all.

Philco's 
86 Low Boy     71B      42-321T
90 High Boy    52B      46-1203
95 High Boy    118B     48-214     
112X Console     60B       48-206
118X Console     84B       49-506
41-608P Console   610B   76 High Boy
41-265 Console   37-89B   370LZ
52GC                38-35B
20 Baby Grand   38-10T
70 Baby Grand   41-221CI

#6

Here's the thread for the table and radio restoration I did a few years back in case its helpful for you...




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