I have two Model 15s that I will be starting on later this year. One has a cabinet in extremely great shape but the speaker area has similar damage as shown here. It is otherwise mostly complete. The second has a “well used” cabinet but everything else is intact, down to the 91 year old power cord. I thought I won the lottery when my daughter found the second Model 15 within weeks of me getting the first. But in reality, this series is winning the lottery. Can you elaborate on the removal of the tone control? Your video shows it coming off fairly easily, but both of mine seem to be frozen or secretly secured somehow. One has a chipped edge evidently from a previous repair. And yes I paid for mine - $40 for the first and $70 for the second.
Wow, two of them! That really is a jackpot. My tone pot was simply held in place with a small wooden block screwed over it on the back. Once I removed the knob and the screws in the wooden block, the pot came right out. The pot itself was frozen - it would not turn at all until I took the back plate off and cleaned it with some contact cleaner. I'm fairly confident I can get this thing all back together and working, with one caveat - one of the four large coils inside the aluminum cans on top is different from the rest, with an extra set of windings on the main coil and an additional small coil on a wooden bobbin stick inside it, and both of these extra coils look damaged/burned, and read as open on my ohmmeter. A quick glance at the schematic appears to show one of these coils going to the antenna, so this may be the result of a lightning strike, which may have been what put this thing out of service. If yous is intact, I would love to see a photograph of what this oddball coil looks like in its undamaged state, and what resistances you read across each of its sections. I'm going to have to re-create this coil (it's very unlikely I can find a replacement), which is not going to be an easy task, so any additional info I can find on it will be helpful.
I would be happy to help. Am traveling at moment but my second 15 is pretty pristine on the inside. Yeah, hard to believe two in about three weeks, although I give my eldest daughter full credit on finding the second one. I don’t know how to send photos through this messaging feature if you can advise.
The 45 tubes (UX245) are going for over $100 for good used ones, that is likely why he took the tubes. You may want to sub them with 1619 tubes in adapter sockets. They are inexpensive any easy to get.
This one is a bit of a mess, but there have been worse ones: ruclips.net/video/uMfL4Eakzng/видео.html The first episode of this radio that you are working on that I saw was I think part 17 or so. I came back to this one to get an idea of the beginning of the process. You really did have a lot of work to do on this one.
Really cool I have a 1926 Brunswick Panatrope Victrola and a cabinet guy remade a couple pieces missing on in before it was refinished
I have two Model 15s that I will be starting on later this year. One has a cabinet in extremely great shape but the speaker area has similar damage as shown here. It is otherwise mostly complete. The second has a “well used” cabinet but everything else is intact, down to the 91 year old power cord. I thought I won the lottery when my daughter found the second Model 15 within weeks of me getting the first. But in reality, this series is winning the lottery. Can you elaborate on the removal of the tone control? Your video shows it coming off fairly easily, but both of mine seem to be frozen or secretly secured somehow. One has a chipped edge evidently from a previous repair. And yes I paid for mine - $40 for the first and $70 for the second.
Wow, two of them! That really is a jackpot.
My tone pot was simply held in place with a small wooden block screwed over it on the back. Once I removed the knob and the screws in the wooden block, the pot came right out. The pot itself was frozen - it would not turn at all until I took the back plate off and cleaned it with some contact cleaner.
I'm fairly confident I can get this thing all back together and working, with one caveat - one of the four large coils inside the aluminum cans on top is different from the rest, with an extra set of windings on the main coil and an additional small coil on a wooden bobbin stick inside it, and both of these extra coils look damaged/burned, and read as open on my ohmmeter. A quick glance at the schematic appears to show one of these coils going to the antenna, so this may be the result of a lightning strike, which may have been what put this thing out of service.
If yous is intact, I would love to see a photograph of what this oddball coil looks like in its undamaged state, and what resistances you read across each of its sections. I'm going to have to re-create this coil (it's very unlikely I can find a replacement), which is not going to be an easy task, so any additional info I can find on it will be helpful.
I would be happy to help. Am traveling at moment but my second 15 is pretty pristine on the inside. Yeah, hard to believe two in about three weeks, although I give my eldest daughter full credit on finding the second one. I don’t know how to send photos through this messaging feature if you can advise.
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The 45 tubes (UX245) are going for over $100 for good used ones, that is likely why he took the tubes. You may want to sub them with 1619 tubes in adapter sockets. They are inexpensive any easy to get.
This one is a bit of a mess, but there have been worse ones:
ruclips.net/video/uMfL4Eakzng/видео.html
The first episode of this radio that you are working on that I saw was I think part 17 or so. I came back to this one to get an idea of the beginning of the process. You really did have a lot of work to do on this one.