Sentinel Console Radio

[HD7100]

Great video Rick. I love the way you fixed that coil. Gary

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. The best I can remember I did that about ten years ago. I have not seen another console battery radio set anywhere.

[joernone]

Rick,

Excellent video showing a very cool method of coil troubleshooting and repair.

I can now add a sharp pin to my list of repair essentials like WD-40, cutting oil and toilet paper rolls. By golly I'm ready to open my own repair shop. :-)

Great vid, Rick.

Regards,

John

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks John,

I wish I could find my MacGyver Knife.

Regards,

Rick

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Great idea on fixing that coil!

When you said you bought all new tubes, were all the ones in it bad? I rarely find bad tubes in radios.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. Yes all the tubes were bad. The filaments were sticking out and stopped by the glass.

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Oh im sorry, i wasnt paying enough attention, when i heard "mica" i started thinking about mica capacitors, so i was a bit confused to what was being said afterwards haha.

Well anyway lovely radio you have!

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

No problem. It was an amazing sight, I wish I would have kept the bad tubes but it was BY (Before YouTube). Actually LBY, Long Before YouTube.

[mariopica]

Very beautiful radio.

Thank you very much for sharing.

best regards,

mario

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks Mario

I have own this radio for about ten years.

Best regards,

Rick

[umajunkcollector]

It even sounds like an old radio!

(as it very well should of course).

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. Yes it does. At onetime I was planning on replacing the speaker with a modern PM speaker. I even bought the speaker and the P-P audio output transformer. But I have decided to keep it original.

[PressureWave]

What a great piece, fantastic indeed, I am no expert on this , but there's one thing I know for sure, they are LOVELY, thanks so much for sharing with us.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks! The filament thing was scary!! But the guy that was selling it said that if he did not sell it he was going to make it into a book shelf. So I had to buy it, right?

[PressureWave]

No doubt at all, you done the right thing, will be a shame the guy turn it in to a book shelf, so your acctitude it's eveen more adorable you rescue such a beauty, well done, you deserve a 5 Star.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

LOL, Thanks.

[batterymaker]

I'm assuming it's a 2v job?

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yes it is. I have the battery eliminator set on 3.2VDC. About a one volt drop from there to the tube filaments.

[douro20]

GE used a similar type of speaker in their pocket radios for a very long time.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Neat! Thanks!

[coolbluelights]

Wow that's got a really big cabinet for such a small chassis and speaker, but back then radios were like pieces of furniture

Very weird speaker! never seen anything like it!

That's cool how you fixed the coil, but wouldn't that change the inductance a little? good thing for trimmer capacitors ^^

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yep back then radios was a new piece of furniture. That type of speaker was popular in the late 1920s and very early 30s. It is surprising to see it here.

Yes it does change the inductance and yes I did adjust the trimmer cap for that circuit. But I could not have gotten it that close by rewinding the coil, so I was very happy that it worked. And the BIG headache of unsoldering and resoldering all those leads was gone. YAaaaa!

Thanks.

[ncautoman57]

Great radio, Another great flea market find. You found the needle in the hay stack. Bravo, Rich

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. I have not seen anything like it since than. I did have to think about buying it because of the filaments exploding out!!! I had never seen that before either.

[JPa311979]

Were did you order the tubes for this? Did you have the caps on hand? Were did you order those? Nice set, I have a battery set from that era, but it's only AM.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

I ordered my tubes and other parts from Antique Electronic Supply. There domain name is tubesandmore. Thanks.

[JPa311979]

Thank you much for replying!

[EnlightenedPerson]

Awesome! That's really neat.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks, so far I have not seen another battery console radio.

[walterdelbono]

awesome...

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks!

[Lockemeister]

Of course you bought it anyway!

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

LOL!