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Found a 38-690 today
04-15-2011, 03:59 PM
Never thought when I woke up this morning I would be a new owner of a nice condition 38-690. Decided to go to an estate sale and found this for $135, came with extra tubes and some Philco advertising. Lost $20 last night at poker with the boys but made out today.
Mark
04-15-2011, 04:06 PM
I'm jealous!!!!
Terry 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 it! Terry 
04-15-2011, 06:22 PM
Why do you have to tell us about these things? It just makes the rest of us feel bad.
 No, really that was a great find!  Steve M R Radios C M Tubes
04-15-2011, 09:18 PM
Once you get that set up, running, and aligned, you'll have a magnificent thunder generator. You'll have power and fidelity that the other big mainline brands didn't offer.
Indeed, you made out like a bandit on the set, and can savor your luck for a long time. Congrats!
04-16-2011, 05:33 PM
Thanks everybody, here two pictures.
[Image: http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph2.jpg] [Image: http://mysite.verizon.net/mlhagen1/ph1.jpg] 
04-16-2011, 07:14 PM
Hmph! Some people have all the luck!
Seriously, though...congratulations on your find, Mark! 
-- Ron Ramirez Ferdinand IN
04-17-2011, 04:44 PM
Looks pretty nice and at a great price! Let us know how the restoration goes.
04-17-2011, 07:37 PM
Marsupial Wrote:It has three speakers. The other devices have cones, but are not speakers and do not have voice coils. As I understand it, they serve to cancel vibrations from the cabinet. Web site: http://www.masekconsulting.net Radio Photos: http://www.photobucket.com - album id FStephenMasek
04-17-2011, 08:22 PM
So, they're early "drone cones", sans voice & fieldcoils? My Altec 890C Bolero speakers each have a 10" speaker and a 10" "passive radiator".
Mike 
04-18-2011, 12:17 AM
You are one lucky dog!
I never seem to find higher ended radios here. Seems everyone was either broke in my area during the depression or no-one wanted high end radios. Now in the county my friend lives in, it was easy to find high or at least higher ended radios at sales. Now it is a poor county, so go figure. 
No matter where you go, there you are.
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