View Full Version : Victor talking Machine CO. made by the Northern Electric Co.


Red Raster
12-28-2010, 04:31 AM
Another from the raster lounge is a R41 Northern Electric radio,In it's condition there is good and the bad, On the plus side the chasis appears to be complete and has all of the tubes.Now a big negative some one in their infamous wisdom stripped the finish from the cabinet and a wiring modification. What have i got?, all comments and sugestions welcome.


http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131428690.jpg
A lackluster and lighter finish than the original

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131428702.jpg
In a merciful act the lable was left untouched

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131428910.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131428995.jpg
Chasis view

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131429405.jpg
Un restored chasis

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131429585.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131429719.jpg
All tubes have good filaiments

http://www.pbase.com/redraster/image/131429885.jpg
Bottom view

Reece
12-28-2010, 02:54 PM
A peanut-tube radio with all the peanut tubes in it and they're good! That's a real find.

jeyurkon
12-28-2010, 09:39 PM
Nice photography too! How'd you do that? The tubes look almost like they were ray-traced.

Red Raster
12-29-2010, 04:32 AM
Nice photography too! How'd you do that? The tubes look almost like they were ray-traced.Jeyurkon, I use the manual mode (focus,aperture and shutter speed) also using a tipod is a must as some of these exposures are as long as 30 seconds,I do not use a flash but light the subject with lamps and even use a variac to control the lighting.
If you have followed some of my posts you may gather that i have just as much fun photographing the items as i would doing restorations on them.
RR