Identifying a Cabinet
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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I was looking for something in the shed when I came across a forgotten timber cabinet, I have no idea what it's out of. Measurements are
W 300 - D 160 - H 190 mm.
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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Location: Naremburn, NSW
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Yours is slightly different. I have one but the front has a slightly different styling to his. They were made in small numbers, as were most Raycophones. Your cabinet has larger holes where the control knobs come through and a higher plinth. It could be for the same chassis but I am not sure either way.
UPDATE: Hmm, maybe I am wrong. I have a Raycophone Peewee but it is smaller than the one Rollerboy has. He shows his as being 370mm wide but a Peewee is smaller than that.
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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...
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Location: Belrose, NSW
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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What I really meant was , is this a Raycophone radio ?
The only Airzone Cub I could find was 1931, not many 1935 pictures on RM. Is there any significance for the ARTS & P sticker to be inside the cabinet rather than the chassis ? I guess part of the fun is the chase ?
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Location: Latham, ACT
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The white ARTsP stickers places it pre 1933.
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Location: Wangaratta, VIC
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That sticker in the cabinet has little to do with who made the radio. It does however trace it to the manufacturers who actually made the cabinet. I have seen one of those before & I may have a photo of one. I have a feeling it was a Sydney mob.
It may have been an Airzone? 4 Suggests four valves. Cabinet: I suspect Rickets & Thorpe Pty Ltd..... Some others...
Beale Sydney
Anderson H C & Franzen
Fallshaw D & Sons
Gage H
Harris d & co Adelaide
Jackson & Mc Donald
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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Location: Toongabbie, NSW
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Hey Rudolf, you have the whole thing there!
All you need to do is knock up a chassis add that in , wind the coils and a transformer, throw in a bunch of valves, mount up a gang wire it all up, slip in a speaker and its all done!!
Easy!
Ok i'll go away now...…………
Fred.
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Location: Brisbane, QLD
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I was given an Airzone 408 chassis a couple of years ago, I'm going to adapt it to the cabinet without destroying any of the fret work.
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Location: Wangaratta, VIC
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B is 1935 and the four is valves. It could be battery with a synchronous vibrator(?) or three & a rectifier most likely #80
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Location: Beechmont, QLD
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Unfortunately, those ARTS&P references are incorrect. H, I and T were never used on Australian radios. After "G", no letters were used. Sets made after sometime early 1941 did not have the letter.
The number on the ARTS&P label indicated the number of "electron streams" in the valves, although there is some inconsistency in this I have found. Some valves had more than one electron stream, so counted as two (or more) towards the total. Electron streams did not include diodes or rectifiers, as the patent for diodes had expired. The inconsistency seems to be with frequency changers; sometimes counted as one, sometimes two, and not consistent with type.
Hope that helps. Cheers.
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Location: Wangaratta, VIC
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Still not at ease with this Kriesler 11-81A here has an AB prefix.
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