Been almost 25 years...but I FINALLY got it again !!

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This is a chassis from an old silvertone stereo console. It uses an SE 6BQ5 for each channel and has pretty big OPT's for an SE too. Chassis # 456.54530.

But what is really SPECIAL about it...to ME at least....is this is the EXACT same chassis I had OVER 30 years ago..as my "first stereo" I have spoken about it before. The one I had got stripped WITHOUT my knowledge nearly 25 years back...and I have wanted one since. But....I NEVER could get my hands on one !! The original one...I stripped out of a console in the trash sometime in I think early July of 1982......and drove it about 2 MILES to the car...on the handlebars of a BICYCLE !!

I have never been able to get another one just like it ...
Till now...anyway. This one was an ebay purchase.


It DOES work-- including the 6FG6 tuning eye tube..but not quite right. Surprisingly there is NOT a lot of hum in the sound...but there IS a sort of "nose blowing sound" in the stereo mode (I think. Like my first one i did NOT get the dial to this one either). And of course--the music played on it today...is MUCH different than my old one played in 1982-1983..but that is NOT the chassis fault.... that music pretty much SUCKS today.... I expect some caps need to be changed no doubt....but all in all I AM PLEASED....after all of these years !!

After playing around with it a bit more....I discovered that most of the "honking sound" in stereo mode is due to a weak signal !! Hooking a piece of solder or such to the antenna terminals on back makes it sound MUCH cleaner. The antenna lead I THOUGHT was for FM...turns out to be for AM. The FM terminals are the ones on the back, near the dial area.