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Old 01-01-2011, 07:35 AM
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That first one, labelled "king" looks exactly like a phono that I had in the mid 50's when I was around 10. Looks like it has the ubiquitous drive mechanism of that era with the wedding-cake shaped capstan.

I just love the look of the Silvertone. I'm a sucker for tabletop wood cabinet radio/phono combos of that vintage. Does it have a manufacturers code that tells who made the electronics?

I just picked up a Silvertone phono/wire recorder/radio from the same era which I hope to start work on soon. It's way heavy and has a huge number of caps to replace (around 12 electrolytics and 60 paper) so its at the back of the queue at the moment, but I've wanted a wire recorder for a long time so I'm looking forward to seeing it done.
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