Too cute to leave behind
 

This is more modern than I'm used to picking up but I couldn't just leave it at the flea market. GE am/fm with external tape and phono hookups. It's tube and it's heavy. The speakers are in the doors but there are no wires. Must use the hinges I guess. It powers on but doesn't produce much but static like most antique radios with shot caps.


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The speakers were powered through the hinges, but if you wanted to separate the speakers, they included set of patch cords with RCA type plugs that plugged into the speakers and jacks on the back of the radio.
A lot of times, the hinges would need contact cleaning, as the speakers would become intermittant. Most of the times, the speaker cables were missing, if the hinge connectors were always used. :sigh:

I'll have to add that to list of those GE's that I lust after...There were radio-phono and radio-phono-monochrome TV versions too. I had a chance to buy one of the radio-phono units once, but I had limited cash, and wanted other stuff more...I hear the TV version had a blue face CRT.

Ah, that's what the rca jacks in the back are for. I found the jack in the speaker as well. I assumed the hinges were the contact. No other possibilities. It's in great shape except for a little water stain. Can't wait to crack it open. Got it for $10 out the door. Not bad.

Looks like I have some work to do. That filter cap looks like cheese.

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Oops. Here's the pic.

You're right, that was too cute to leave behind. I had a tube AM-FM stereo record player in walnut, same speaker hookups, and years later, the white French Provincial Custom Decorator, with a Daylight Blue television, radio, and phono.

That's the super-deluxe model with the power transformer and the 6AQ5 outputs. Hard to tell from the first pictures.
I have the smaller table model with the swing out speakers. Series-string chassis with 50C5, or similar output stage. Still a neat little piece.

I was surprised to see the speakers are two-ways. Hopefully the schematic is out there somewhere at least for the cap list.

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Almost looks like the ancestor of the boombox... Just needs a handle on top. :D

Ya'd have to be king kong to carry that TV combo around on your shoulder for any length of time though...

Put up the model # & I will see if I got a Sams.
Neat & rare set, $10 a bargain. Once and a while GE got it
right, I thinks this is one they did.

73 Zeno:smoke:

According to the back panel, it's a T2002A (maple). T2000A and T2001A are walnut and cherry respectively. A schematic would sure make ordering caps easier.

Sorry I dont have the Sams on this one.

73 Zeno:smoke:

Well, this thread is now 3.5 years old. I finally pulled this radio off the shelf and started the restore. While waiting on capacitors to come in, I checked out the speakers and cleaned pots. One tweeter is open. Hunting for a new 1.5" tweeter. This one is rated as 1/4 watt. Don't think I'll find anything that low. Looking at one on partsexpress that's 15 watts. I can get under 10 if I look at a 6 ohm model. Anyway, anxious to see how things go this week. If anyone has a source for cheap, low watt tweeters, please let me know.
BTW, the yellow grill cloth is not original. The original is faded but not too bad looking.

I think what matters most in replacing a speaker is that the impedance and dimensions be the same. IIRC wattage is a rating for the max power input it can handle before distorting or burning out so higher power should be fine as long as impedance matches.

Another thing worth consideration is frequency response of the original VS replacement...The closer the better, but odds are unless you find the exact part it won't match.
This may sound a bit ascinine but I prefer to replace speakers in pairs, if the tweeter in a pair of 2-way book shelf speakers go I try to replace both at once. Unless an exact replacement is available, replacing only one speaker will create different frequency response between right and left channels...Something that annoys me enough to pop for two speakers.

EDIT: One more thing in 2-way speakers as I suspect those are there is a capacitor in sreies with the tweeter...The capacitor's purpose is to block bass and some lower mid from reaching the tweeter. If you drive a tweeter with a decent ammount of bass power it will burn out. If the crossover capacitor has shorted or gone leaky it will stop blocking the path of bass power into the tweeter, and the tweeter will fail....Given you have a bad tweeter and an old capacitor it is likely the tweeter died because the capacitor is bad....I STRONGLY reccommend replacing your tweeter crossover capacitors.

Correct, there were 4uf capacitor crossovers. Both tested around .01 uf. I have replaced those. I've been too busy to figure out what frequency that would crossover at. I may give the ones I found today a try. $1 a piece. They are rated 3500-20000 but are recommended 5K+.

Ready to put this one back together unless I decide to replace the dial light with something that runs cooler.

Just wanted to share a GE model my wife saw in an antique store. Must have been the top of the line. Grill fabric is the same. Attachment 197387

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