My first tube amp!!

pick it up early this morning before work, didn't have time to play with / looks good for 1948, Yes






and preamp sweet Phono

 

Sat going dig into see what under all that dust!! with more pictures.

 

one more for the day

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If anyone ever wonders why some older records from the 50s look so beat up and play scratchy, just show them this.

 

WOW, thanks for the pictures.

Cabinet looks in pretty good shape for its age.

I noticed the old variable turning capacitor first thing.

What shape is the old speaker in? Does the speaker have 4 wires going to it? If so just going from memory two wires were for the voice coil and the other two went to a DC electromagnetic coil around a round iron poll piece which created the magnet for the speaker voice coil to function The coil was also part of the filtering of the high voltage DC power supply. I think it worked as a choke between 2 electrolytic caps in the DC power supply.

Are you going to try to restore and power her up? No doubt you will need to recap her first.

 

Its very cool!

 

I noticed the old variable turning capacitor first thing.


Sorry guys, that should read variable tuning capacitor also called a variable tuning condenser.

 

Thank's jea my only thought was, its still on craglist and they drop the price to one hundred because there moving.
its 5 miles away i have a truck with lift-gate. it looks better than the pictures ill take some more sat.
speaker i think it was round plug in the upper one. the bottom was 10 or 12in. you pushed the wood panel in turn 1/3
and speaker was on other side push in its gone. but it look like a bunch of wires at first site.
people said they never plug it in, just had it in the entry way for looks 30 something years.
I'm going to do my best to make it alive sing again. what do you think of Gerrard 210 in it place, look better?
and i have one. will it look out of place ??

get better pic. tomorrow, and thanks. all in put will be much appreciative.

 

Little up date Sat/13/15
didn't get much done clean out a lot of dust, got some schematic on the way

the big speaker has 6 wires going it and transformer


and i have 5 plug wire for top but only 2 wires to it. im thinking 70v line? and Klinger on both??



this looks like the preamp



I have 4.30 am pick-up that's it for now

 

love the construction, beautiful.

 

cool pics...thanks for sharing!

 

Love it! Let us know if it works, and if not, what repairs it needs.

 

Awesome. You should gave a lot of fun with this.

 

Randy,

Great pictures.

the big speaker has 6 wires going it and transformer

and i have 5 plug wire for top but only 2 wires to it. im thinking 70v line? and Klinger on both??


Just guessing the transformer mounted on the large 10" or 12" dia round speaker is the output transformer for the two Push Pull configured 6L6 power tubes. That would be 3 wires of the 6. (B+ and one from each plate of the 2 power tubes.) Just guessing again 2 wires are for the DC electromagnet (speaker field) for the speaker. Not sure about the 6th wire, maybe a B- chassis ground wire.

As for the oval speaker that is confusing. The speaker looks to have a permanent magnet , not an electromagnet. The 2 wires feeding the transformer puzzles me as well. Where are they fed from?

When you get the wiring schematic diagram please post a picture of it.

By chance do you know the model number of the console?

 

It's likely that you're experienced with restoring these early consoles, but as a warning for those out there that aren't: Please keep in mind that in many cases the chassis on these early electronics are LIVE, so please be very careful when working on them! I always suggest using a variac or isolation transformer for safety.

 

Randy,

Just saw the Model number in your first picture.

Westinghouse Model H-169

 

Thanks, Im going very slowly to don't want to break it, I got it out today, lots of pic. i'll go put a record on an get some up!!

 

first I have to show Y'all something its the woofer box, its spring loaded push it in turn 1/4 there just like that.

 

That is a nice looking cabinet. The Garrard TT will still look vintage enough and should function much better than the stock one. What is the tracking?
I have a 1958 Motorola SK18M console with a Motorla TT. I bought a neat $10 box of 200 well played but not totally trashed 45s that had a great selection of rock, soul and country to play on it. It needs some work on the tuner/preamp as I am only getting sporadic sound from the tuner section but the TT plays fine.

 

speaker plug only 6 wires 2 are dubbed up go to top speaker

 

Tracking i don't know. I'm just winging it here.

 

I thought the nobs were not going to come off with breaking.



boy..was I happy

 

I don't it they played it much?

 

that hole is for a tube, its seat in a spring clamp

 

Ok everything unplug, i see it has been out at least once before that's my blue tape
those plugs very gently wiggled little screwdriver behind they didn't want to get off ether.
2 wires spliced yellow and black, the electrical tape was thick and springy


And theirs the other piece of tape,