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This is the front panel view of the radio that I received. It had been repainted and the knobs had been painted. The original stuff like connections were all there but also had been painted. |
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This is the inside view of the original radio before
I started the restoration. The interesting thing about this radio
was the "book capacitor"that was used to tune in the
stations. From the advertisements I found in my old QST magazine collection, these capacitors must have been popular at the time. It seemed that only Crosley made them. |
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This is the view of the inside of the cabinet after I finished cleaning and refinishing the cabinet. It was tough getting the "sands of time" out of it, but it sure looks nice now. |
| Here is a great picture of the "works". You can see the book capacitor and the flat wound honeycomb coils. The coil against the front panel is tapped and they can be selected by the switch knob in the lower center of the front panel in the picture below. From my measurements, this radio should tune from 400Khz to 3.6 Mhz. What is strange to me is that the advertisements for this radio never mention the frequency bands that the radio would cover. |
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Here is the finished restoration. I cleaned and reworked the knobs so that the original numbers showed up and the arrow on the regeneration control was enhanced. The band swith contacts were cleand along with all the thumbscrew terminal connectors. With my home made batteries and my high impeadance headphones the old Crosley is really fun listening. It is amazing that a radio that is 83 years old still gives so much enjoyment. |