12-10-2019, 09:03 PM
In August 2018, I acquired an RCA 9T tombstone radio.
I paid way too much for it but I haven't seen one for sale since, so I guess I'm happy to have it.
More recently, I picked up an RCA 10K chassis, fairly cheaply. I was considering putting the 10K chassis into the 9T because I really wanted a 10T to begin with - although, I think the 9T cabinet looks better than the 10T cabinet in terms of styling. The 10T/10K has an extra IF stage and high fidelity reception; the 9T does not.
The decision became easy a few weeks ago when I pulled out both chassis and found the 9T chassis had been worked on, but was a hack job. By contrast, the 10K was nearly virgin; only one paper capacitor and one resistor had been replaced, and these repairs had been done decades ago.
The only problem was, both the speaker wiring harness and the tuning eye tube harness had been cut off.
I began working on the 10K chassis anyway.
Removal of the "Magic Brain" was simpler than removing a 1937-38 Philco RF unit. All of the RCA connections terminate in an octal plug.
I did have some trouble with the mechanical end (band switch) of the Magic Brain, but I managed to get everything loose and removed.
I paid way too much for it but I haven't seen one for sale since, so I guess I'm happy to have it.
More recently, I picked up an RCA 10K chassis, fairly cheaply. I was considering putting the 10K chassis into the 9T because I really wanted a 10T to begin with - although, I think the 9T cabinet looks better than the 10T cabinet in terms of styling. The 10T/10K has an extra IF stage and high fidelity reception; the 9T does not.
The decision became easy a few weeks ago when I pulled out both chassis and found the 9T chassis had been worked on, but was a hack job. By contrast, the 10K was nearly virgin; only one paper capacitor and one resistor had been replaced, and these repairs had been done decades ago.
The only problem was, both the speaker wiring harness and the tuning eye tube harness had been cut off.
I began working on the 10K chassis anyway.
Removal of the "Magic Brain" was simpler than removing a 1937-38 Philco RF unit. All of the RCA connections terminate in an octal plug.
I did have some trouble with the mechanical end (band switch) of the Magic Brain, but I managed to get everything loose and removed.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
