1926 temple tube radio

a 1926 temple co, templetone cathedral style floor tube radio, got from garage sale for 50 bucks. and i cannot find any information on it anywere.. need tube diagrams!! and schematics

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[BMotoX77]

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

[debiani3866]

what does turning the nob on the left do?

[BMotoX77]

its the tone knob i believe

[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..

[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.

[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...

[fernando140887]

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

[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.

[Jake199415]

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

[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.

[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!