Some photos of an unrestored Blaupunkt radio belonging to a family member.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/43309412
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/43309418
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/43309778
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/43309894

Nice original condition radio with an interesting speaker arrangement. Must have been quite a performer in its day and looks like it has VHF FM as well.

Rather complex which was the nature of German radios of the 50's.

Thanks for the photos.

Gee that looks busy in the back. Reminds me of a telly.

Nice radio, controls are similar to this:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/blaupunkt_new_york_4540.html
I have one of these!

Yes, like all Blaupunkt gear, very complex. Coming from an engineering perspective, their products, as with many other European designs, seemed to lack an overall vision. Different teams responsible for each section and another team responsible for stitching it all together. And they didn't talk to each other!

Reminiscent of KC series colour TV from mid 70s. Not happy memories!

Would be a fairly courageous restoration project for a radio.

All German radio's from the mid 50's to early 60's in that style could be tarred with the same brush!

I have a Grundig sitting on my bench with a busted on/off switch. This switch is connected to the piano-key push-button assembly by interlocking linkages. Replacing the switch involves first removing the power transformer then the push-button assembly in that order. The switch itself is unique and a replacement not available - so a switch from Jaycar had to be modified to suit. The end result was successful but there was a lot of mucking around just to replace a simple on/off switch.

This Grundig's output valve is a ELL80, which was stuffed. A ELL80 is effectively two 6DL5's (EL95) in the same package. The ELL80 valves are hard to procure and expensive. As the chassis had an extra blank hole next to the ELL80 socket, I wired in two 7 pin sockets and used a matched pair of 6DL5's. You could do the same with the ultra rare and expensive ECLL80 if space on the chassis allows.

Another thing with German radios of that vintage are the Wima paper caps. These are dreadful and are just as bad as the English Hunts & Australian AEE microcaps.

A friend who restores vintage radios utterly despises European radios and refuses to work on them. He also has a very unflattering name for them which I cant repeat here.

I personally don't mind them, and find them exotic compared to Australian sets, They sound good too when working properly. It is just they can be real dogs and a challenge to work on.

Love the comment on AEE & Hunts I think we have missed one? Wima was not one of them(bad)

I have had a run of XW series Falcon ones (fix one they tell the others) these are now suffering dried out electrolytics & caps of this type fracturing & in one (not this group) actually burning.

JamieLee !!!!!!! I have the same Blaupunkt Radiogam !! bought it about 5 years ago, my is the later model , same type of look,, Its pretty good But complex < Before that I had a 1962 JVC Nivico which had a Richer sound