1926 temple tube radio

[toltec13]

Looks nice, but the humming sounds like a bad electrolytic capacitor. the stations that faintly comes in means several bad capacitors. the crackle and pop sounds like some bad resistors. Had the same issue with a 1951 Silvertone radio. I replaced the electrolytic capacitors(humming went away), capacitors(more station came in) and resistors(no more crackle & pop) and I ran it for a week straight and runs like a champ.

[buddhafollower]

for that type of shit you need a longer antenna about 20-30 meters. and a pentode amplifier. you can yourself make the schematics...

[steelers6titles]

Yeah, in 1926 the "breadboards" and the long box-type cabinets with the old-fashioned horns and/or headphones still predominated, I believe; the cathedral-type styling with dynamic built-in speaker came later.

The old superheterodynes were extremely sensitive. I have an old Philco shortwave dating from around 1933 which is still capable of pulling in stations around the world with a mere straight-wire antenna. It's not even fully restored, either.

[BMotoX77]

just by looking, does anyone have a idea what I could sell this thing for if I do decide on it?

[ZmajSnoshaj]

@BMotoX77 If you were to selling it locally *without restoration* I would say $150 is a fair price. If you restored it and sold it on eBay with a respectable account (and figure in shipping).. and I do mean a FULL restore. I would say around $350-$400.

[Jake199415]

@BMotoX77 I'll give you 5 dollars for it right now, i'm making you a damn good offer:)

[volvo740man1980]

sweet find yea GET THOSE CAPS REPLACED ASAP:) youre actually quite lucky nothing blew up. atleast with any old radios you should at very least build a dim bulb tester. but this unit puts my 1941 philco to shame:)

[G0IFI]

That is an absolute beauty. The cabinet has been cared for, and it's not going to take much work to get it working perfectly again. I'd say you did extremely well for your 50 dollars. A radio of this vintage and in this condition could prove to be a very sound investment. I love it.

[Max0Inq]

What a radio!

[jdbern1]

Check out Nostalgia air, they have thousands of schematics online for free! On the back of the set, if the tube layout schematic is still there, the model number should be near the brand name of the set. Look up Temple, then scroll down until you find you model, then down load.

[Thermionman1970]

Absolutely gorgeous radio! You can really hear the AC hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!Will sound great with new capacitors etc.I have some old radios I have to recap ,some with the big potted paper capacitors sealed in cans.Lots of fun.

[CX9AU]

Very good, apreciated this old radio, only need a new electrolitic in power supply. My first short wave radio was a General Electric from 30's. On 1976 in Uruguay lisent North American radios on MW WNOE, KFBK all nigths on 800 Radio Bonaire, radios from Los ANgeles, and from Central America Radio Swan, and Radio Bahamas near 1400 Kc.

[ab5ni]

Beautiful radio! Important to note that old radios should always be check out by someone who understands such things before turning the thing on, my friend. Turning em on for even an instant can irreparable damage. Seek out ur local ham radio club for a hand with this, dude.

[staticbear76]

i love this staticy radio it is just beautiful and staticy the way radio should sound like

[poshko41]

I would have loled if you'd tuned to In da Club by 50 Cent or something. :)

[CX9AU]

The station is in single side band?, put the bfo on

[ab5ni]

I believe it's AM, actually. If you listen closely, you can hear the AC hum coming from the leaky power supply filter caps, and I'm pretty sure this is main cause of the distorted audo that we're hearing.

It's also important to not that properly restored, this radio could be worth from many hundreds to many thousands of dollars, depending on its rarity and condition.

73

[debiani3866]

what does turning the nob on the left do?

[BMotoX77]

its the tone knob i believe

[fernando140887]

@BMotoX77 The knob it´s a reaction control, the radio is a "reflex" or "regenerative" type........

[paullo5959]

Beautiful Old Radio. Thanks for posting.

[BMotoX77]

thats the last time ive turned it on since i made this video, i dont want to run it just in case i blow a tube, i dont know where i could get more tubes for it so im not going to run it often, and we ripped down the old radio tower we had in the yard so now i dont have the proper antenna for it. its a shame tho that there isnt any am stations in town, so i always get us stations, but only at night during prop..

[weiwdxnw3nywyxrc98]

That radio is at least 1931, no earlier. It's a superhet. RCA didn't license superhets until late 1930.

[data2137]

its video like this that makes Youtube special. beautiful radio and fun to hear it play.thanks

[glennmillerfan]

The Cathedral Radios Are The Quintesential Vintage Radios.The Main Example Is The 1931 Philcos,But That One Is Beautiful And In Great Shape.

[manolo1959]

HI nice cathedral radio, I recomend You to buy a

100W solder and replace all electolitic capacitors and paper ones , ONE by One ,that means , replace one and check if is working, you will improve for 20 $ this wonderfull temple.The speaker is not the problem.The 60Hz noise is normal ..

best regards from Spain

Manuel

[redradiodog]

fuzzy

[coolbluelights]

Defiitely from the 1930- 31 era I'm suprised it even works in unrestored condition. try cleaning the controls with deoxit. and try replacing some capacitors when you get schematics.

[Trance88]

Nice radio! Can you tell if it's it all original?

[neutrodyne]

Great looking radio but it is definitely not a 1926 model. It will be in the area of around 1931.

[old64goat]

Temple was made in New London, Ct.

It is most likely made in the 1930's, I don't think it was made in the 20's, but I could be wrong. Do you have a model number?

I could look it up for you.

[giberish9]

Where would you look it up?

[BMotoX77]

im not using a battery eliminator, but there is a tag on the back that has a bunch of dates, starting with 1910, and ending with 1926, someone told me that is how you figure out how old it is, but idk. theres a tube inside that with a price tag from 1930.. so it cant be any newer than that.

[Organgrinder010]

Beautiful radio! 1926 is pretty early to run off AC mains, unless you are using a battery eliminator? Sounds great, is this off the original components?

[bobofhollywood]

I'm not familiar with foreign sets, but that looks like about a 1930 or -31 model. In 1926 I'm not sure we had tuners with a single dial yet. It's a very cool set but I'll be you a dollar it's from the 30's and not from the 20's.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

What is the model?

[BMotoX77]

the back just says "model m", i cant find anything about it anywhere or what its worth, i used to collect them and this is, im guessing the one i have thats worth the most, its a canadian temple

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yikes. Hit a big zero so far. Give me the tube list.

[BMotoX77]

224,247,280,235,224,235,227

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. I'll do some searching and get back to you if I have it or not

[BMotoX77]

thanks alot eh

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Looks like yours is a model 16. Sent you the link, in email.

[BMotoX77]

ooh okay, thats prolly why i couldnt find anytihng on it, i was searcing the wrong number

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

I don't know why they did stuff like that, but they did????

[BMotoX77]

yeah kind of dumb

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Very nice radio. I just looked at nostalgiaairDOTorg website and they have some listings for Temple Co.

[damusician]

oh wow! thatz one badass radio. i bet itz running of itz original components.

[JuZZi90]

very cool radio.. so old and still works :)