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Zenith X426 AM/FM radio
I finally found one of these Zenith table radios (an X - 1967 model) with the transistor socket chassis (8NT21). The only thing wrong with it was a bad coupling capacitor going into the volume control. Now it works good, on both AM and FM. If anyone has that tuning knob I'm missing - let me know? Here's the pics...
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Another cost-cutting feature was the lack of a tweeter speaker, as was used in the early '60s Zenith radios; at least I didn't see a separate tweeter in this one. The large pulley driving the dial cord is in the position where I would have expected to see such a speaker. The only thing I can think of that would have prompted Zenith to design these late '60s radios without tweeters is the solid-state design; the audio output transistor may not have been powerful enough to drive the main speaker and a tweeter as well. The earlier Zeniths with tweeters (K731, C845, et al.) drove them directly from the plate of the audio output tube.
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Jeff, WB8NHV Collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage Zenith radios since 2002 Zenith. Gone, but not forgotten. Last edited by Jeffhs; 05-10-2016 at 12:32 PM. |
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Grundig had an non-simulcast system with separate dial strings and a single knob (most european makers used concentric knobs on dual string tuners) with a clutch mechanism linked to the band switch that would swithc which string the knob drove based on the band selected. I had an SO-205-U console with that tuning mech and it was a total cluster f^ck.
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