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Hagstar
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 1:08 am |
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Here she is, I still need to get the FM working right but the rest of the bands work really really well, pulling in stations I've never gotten here before. With all those tubes and three IF stages, as well as dual 6L6 output she cooks! I replaced all SIXTY paper caps plus filters.
The oscillators have their own regulated power supply. There's a scratch suppressor and variable IF width control- are there enough knobs for you? I started out with just a Braemar cabinet and tuner chassis. Thanks to Dennis D. and Syl without whose help fixing this and finding parts it would have taken yet ANOTHER four years to finish at least. I still have to rechrome the amp- someday (for now I'm using metal tubes on the amp, I do have the correct glass ones). The guts for one of these just finished for about $1500- on the 'Bay, and a set of similar tweeters alone went for that awhile back!
I had to make the repro crossover box, which hooks via an octal plug cable I installed through an existing hole because OEM a bizarre 7 prong connector was used I despaired of ever finding (if I do it can be easily added). I have the tweeters on the bottom as oddly enough otherwise the amp doesn't fit though I know these are the right speakers as they came with a parts Phantom AM/FM and this is an OEM speaker baffle board. I don't have all the caps for the tube shields either but think it looks fine anyway. This is a keeper 
John H.
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tubenutt
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Oh-h-h-hhhh, what a beauty!! Give you $100 and a chance to see the state of Oregon for it?? You fly, I buy??  
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Dennis Daly
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Great job, Yonny!!
Glad to see that assemblage of junk become one very beautiful radio.
("Ol Jim" would have been proud.............)
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bmatter
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 3:28 am |
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WOW! I think I'd leave a space behind that set so visitors can walk behind it and gawk at the chassis!
REALLY nice!
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cliff_marsland
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 3:38 am |
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| What a wonderful project! Great job and what a great radio. |
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Dale L Davenport
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What a great looking radio, and it's obvious you did excellent work. I agree it's a keeper - - - - - something to be very proud of.
To the subject of prices: A nice set of components for one of these just finished on eeevilbay - - - they sold seperately - - (no cabinet offered):
Scott tweeters - - - - - - - - - - - - $480.00
Dividing network - - - - - - - - - - - -$253.50
12" speaker/ baffle - - - - - - - - - - $255.99
Amp/power supply - - - - - - - - - - -$405.00
Chassis & manual - - - - - - - - - - - $501.99
Total - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$1896.48
(and that doesn't include shipping the various individual pieces)
I thought it strange that all but two of the various bits were sold to seperate buyers.
Congratulations on obviously great workmanship, and equally great results. Makes me want to get back to work on my "Beam-Of-Light" AM-FM Philharmonic.....I just have to get a few other projects off the bench now so that I can resume work on it.
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Keyop
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 4:50 am |
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John, et al...
I had the pleasure of seeing one of these beauties in-person here in Houston some time ago...At the time I was totally impressed by everything about it...And now seeing your wonderful restoration, I am again, totally impressed...Gives credence to the old saying, "If you want gold then you have to start with gold."...A fitting expression, IMHO, for E. H. Scott consoles.
Great work!
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exray
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Zowie! Very nice. How about an under the chassis(s) shot? I wanna make sure there's no Orange Drops or naked Yellowcaps in there 
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Hagstar
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| exray wrote: | I wanna make sure there's no Orange Drops or naked Yellowcaps in there
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They're ALL naked and yeller', sorry. I was told by previous restorers in fact that several paper caps couldn't be reached AT ALL without taking apart the bandswitch (I did it though). I did save all the old caps. Quite a few had been changed already, and I know honestly restuffing might mean an extra year before I finished (mostly due to the discouragement). As I wrote here before, I'm not sure YOU would have restuffed these!
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exray
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| Hagstar wrote: | | exray wrote: | I wanna make sure there's no Orange Drops or naked Yellowcaps in there
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They're ALL naked, sorry. I was told by previous restorers in fact that several paper caps couldn't be reached AT ALL without taking apart the bandswitch (I did it though). I did save all the old caps. Quite a few had been changed already, and I know honestly restuffing might mean an extra year before I finished (mostly due to the discouragement). As I wrote here before, I'm not sure YOU would have restuffed these!
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Did you store them in a baggie with a note? 
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Hagstar
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 8:41 am |
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Did you store them in a baggie with a note?
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There are too many for a baggie, I have to move them to a labeled jar.
What are you doing up at 4:30 am? Or are you STILL up .Here, the birds are now awakening me at 4:15 occasionally.
John H.
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Dale Saukerson
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 11:45 am |
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| Terrific looking piece of furniture. |
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gvel
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That is a mighty fine looking radio - great work!
Pardon the ignorance, but what's up with the two eye tubes? What are their purposes? I'm sure one is for tuning, but I can't figure out what the other one is for.
Do you feel like you're being watched? Was that Scott's way of AVC? The further away you are - the louder the radio gets.  |
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Hagstar
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| gvel wrote: | That is a mighty fine looking radio - great work!
Pardon the ignorance, but what's up with the two eye tubes? What are their purposes? I'm sure one is for tuning, but I can't figure out what the other one is for.
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It's for FM tuning
John H.
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targeteye
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 3:34 pm |
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Mighty Fine looking Scott you got there!
Congrats on completing that monumental recapping job too!
I wonder how hard it would be to convert the FM section to the modern band?
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Curt Reed
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Then it would lose all its originality and the value of it would plummet.
Curt
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Hagstar
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| Posted: Jul Sun 09, 2006 6:27 pm |
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| Curt Reed wrote: | Then it would lose all its originality and the value of it would plummet.
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My parts chassis was indeed converted to the new band, but it was an ugly thing with the huge chrome IF cans replaced by tiny aluminum things and a 2nd dial assembly on standoffs.
Anyway, I have many first hand reports that once the FM is working right it will indeed receive modern FM stations up to about 96 MHz through incidental heterodyning.
John H.
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skennedy
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| Posted: Jul Mon 10, 2006 7:56 pm |
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On prices again,
What do you guys think this cabinet of John's would be worth? I found one of these at an estate sale a couple of years ago hoping to find the chassis, ect. later on, but haven't come across them yet. I think it is called the "Braemer" cabinet. The lady at the sale didn't have a clue what happened to the guts. Probably thrown in the trash somewhere. I just happened to get the cabinet before it became a liquor cabinet. Maybe someday they will show up.
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Dale L Davenport
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| Posted: Jul Mon 10, 2006 8:53 pm |
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skennedy wrote:
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My older Slusser book says $750.00. Probably higher by now I'd imagine.
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