A rare Electrohome console made for Eatons
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i bought this one about a week ago and it took a while to find out the exact model.
It is an Electrohome model Z8A83X-E.
I finally found the schematics from Steve Johnson. I have it recapped and playing good.
The cabinet is stripped,and the next step is grain filler
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Nice chassis. Should be easy to work on.
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Well now...that's a very interesting DE set! I've never seen one with that dial and control layout.
I don't find that model number in either the RCC or Electrohome manuals, but it's not uncommon to find unpublished schematics for Grimes/Dominion Electrohome sets when the chassis is slightly changed from a previous model. But that makes restoration more "interesting"
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That's the kind of chassis I appreciate! Lots of 'elbow room' to work in. Take care and BE HEALTHY! Gary
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I was looking through the numbers on the PacificTV website, there were some that were close, but not close enough. Brad is right though, sometimes Grimes-Phonola/Dominion Electrohome would warm over a chassis for more then one model year, which is why I was looking through the previous year models. The model numbers Phonola/D-E used for their chassis did include a year, but it was the date the circuit diagrams were approved, not the year of production, usually it was a model for the following year, but not always, I've seen some that were dated around 1940, but not actually produced until 1947. I would like to know why Eatons seemingly carried two different private label brands of radio, Viking of course, and Minerva. apparently concurrently? (not to be confused with the AC/DC, line operated only, steel cased portables of the late WW2 and post war era). I have run across pictures of that console model somewhere, I have a feeling that it may have been a licensed copy of a U.S made set, a Howard perhaps?
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I bought the schematic from Steve Johnson, and here is a copy
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Dan;
Not a bad circuit, uses a 6K8 for a mixer-oscillator, and a proper tuned RF amplifier stage, strange that it only has three bands but then again it is a an Eaton's set.
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Beautiful job. Dan! Take care and BE HEALTHY! Gary
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Wow Dan, amazing job! Looks great!
I wonder if that model is featured in any of the Eatons catalogs?
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Beautiful job. An eye-pleaser.
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Just for anyone looking for information on Phonola’s or Electrohome’s. The University of Waterloo was kind enough to send me Service Notes, parts lists and schematics for a couple of Phonola radios that I restored. They have this information on Electrohome/Phonola in their “Special Collections and Archives” section of their library.
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Hello Dan,
what amazing job !
Hamilton that is great news .
Sincerely Richard
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