zombie1210
08-11-2018, 05:27 PM
Found this today for 30 bucks. Looked ok in the photos, so I went over and picked it up. After a good dusting and some Lemon Pledge, the cabinet looks pretty nice. I was planning on giving it the Gojo and steel wool treatment, but I'm not sure it needs it. I know it's nothing real special, but the condition of it is pretty special. And I rescued it from becoming a liquor cabinet.
Magnavox speaker????
https://i.imgur.com/etrLtmx.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/atwyjdD.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/lsx9hMA.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/Ki5cbjk.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/CzDtSgv.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/yoSNTrt.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/EUyatAM.jpg?1
Electronic M
08-11-2018, 05:49 PM
Somone gave me a 931A recently. The finish on the outside is shot though. There were no output tubes (and apparently Sparton used proprietary tubes in these), so I made adapters to plug 12B4s in...That and lytics were all mine needed.
bgadow
08-11-2018, 10:35 PM
VERY clean set, a keeper!
zombie1210
08-12-2018, 01:17 PM
It's not the fanciest Equasonne, but for what it is, it's clean and good looking. It's going out next week for an electrical restoration. I think it's a keeper or I wouldn't invest any money in it.
init4fun
08-12-2018, 02:17 PM
It's not the fanciest Equasonne, but for what it is, it's clean and good looking. It's going out next week for an electrical restoration. I think it's a keeper or I wouldn't invest any money in it.
That's the great thing about collecting old radios , if you think it's a keeper , that's all that matters . And just like all the others of it's kind , properly restored , it's gonna sound great and that's what will make it a keeper .
And yea , Magnavox supplied speakers to all kinds of manufacturers back in the day , and your Magnavox appears to need a re coning or is that just a strange artifact of the photo that's making it look like the paper is gone around the outer perimeter ?
zombie1210
08-12-2018, 02:33 PM
The paper is lighter color around the edge.
I figured out how to drop the chassis down. It's an interesting way to access the "cages".
https://i.imgur.com/d3X9vWQ.jpg?1
Schanz
08-12-2018, 05:36 PM
Looks special to me :-)
Is the tuning mechanism the dual cable front and back like the philco lowboy? Just got one back together and it took every cuss word in my vocabulary.
zombie1210
08-12-2018, 05:43 PM
Not sure about that. I put it away for now.
One question for youse guys.....
How do you pronounce Equasonne?
Ek-wa-son ?
Ek-wa-sony?
Ek-wa-sone?