07-31-2025, 10:09 PM
Bob;
I've made pointers before out of thin sheet metal from a various things, I think I made one for a Guild Spice Chest out of the steel cover from a junked home theater amp I picked up to scrounge the power transformer from. Tin snips, and a Dremel tool are very useful, as is a bench vise.
The plug on that battery looks familiar, I have a Canadian Marconi 260 portable that originally used a pair in the same style for the "A" batteries, which someone clipped off. Unfortunately the Marconi set is AC only at the moment, it used a tapped output transformer to accommodate the use of a 50B5 and a 3Q4, both the speaker, and the output transformer were replaced with a Hammond substitute, which is far too large.
Regards
Arran
https://jproc.ca/marconi/home_ent/260.html
I've made pointers before out of thin sheet metal from a various things, I think I made one for a Guild Spice Chest out of the steel cover from a junked home theater amp I picked up to scrounge the power transformer from. Tin snips, and a Dremel tool are very useful, as is a bench vise.
The plug on that battery looks familiar, I have a Canadian Marconi 260 portable that originally used a pair in the same style for the "A" batteries, which someone clipped off. Unfortunately the Marconi set is AC only at the moment, it used a tapped output transformer to accommodate the use of a 50B5 and a 3Q4, both the speaker, and the output transformer were replaced with a Hammond substitute, which is far too large.
Regards
Arran
https://jproc.ca/marconi/home_ent/260.html
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