My Zenith Royal 2000 (did I say Zenith Royal 200 in that previous post
of mine? if I did,I made a typo,it is a Zenith Royal 2000 AM/FM radio)
radio,a vey,very nice looking radio too.It is the same size as my Zenith
Royal 1000 Trans-Oceanic radio except it looks to me like it is about
3/8ths ot 1/2 incher larger from front to back than my Zenth Royal 1000
radio,it is a big heavy Zenith AM portable radio with a wide carrying
handle mounted on top of the radio.Maybe somebody can find a picture on
the internet of a radio just like it.I am looking at the schematic
inside on the back panel of the radio right now.It is an all transistor
radio and the chassis mounted inside of the cabinet of the radio looks
to me like the chassis is mounted upside down in the radio.There is no
jack on the radio for an adapter,it runs on batteries only,best as I can
see.Inside,on the back of the radio's chassis is a three way slide
switch for Rado,Tuner and Phono and to the right of that slide switch is
a jack for Phono Tuner and to the right of that jack is another jack for
Ear Phone Jack.On the schematic it says,Patented in Canada by Zenith
Radio Corporation in one or more of the following years:
1946,1949,1950,1951 (I think I see a little bitty date that says,1 30
59,is that when the radio was made?) On the schematic it says,CHASSIS
11ET40Z2 and stamped on the metal of the chassis,it says,8682290,the
same numbers are on a paper label right next to those numbers.It looks
like the plastic battery holder takes eight D cell batteries.I don't
know anything about how to repair radios unless it is oviously something
as simple as soldering a wire back together or cleaning up battery
corrosion.There is an old guy by the name of Otto about eighty something
years old who lives in Clinton,Mississippi (Clinton is a small city of
about 21,847 population five miles West of me) and he has been doing
radio repair work for many,many years.I guess he knows about as much
about repairing radios as anybody else does.Someday I am going to take
that radio and my big old Telefunken wooden cabinet table model
AM/FM/Shortwave radio and my Grundig wooden cabinet floor model
AM/FM/Shortwave/Phonograph radio over to his house and let him work on
those radios.I own a lot of old tube type and transistor radios and one
very nice little wooden cabinet table model tube type AM radio in
particular that I once bought from old man Thomas Burnside about seven
years ago (Thomas Burnside sells old radios and clocks and things,he
lives one mile West of me) and I definetly want to get that radio
repaired and working.I own a couple of very old external radio speakers
too.I can't even get to those two speakers right now because I have so
much stuff stacked all around them.One of the speakers is octogon shaped
and it has a cloth grill on it with a sort of a flower design on the
cloth grill,I think it is a Zenith external speaker and dates back to
the 1920's or 1930's and the other speaker (I can see them in one of my
junk rooms,I just can't get to them up close right yet) has a round
metal housing and a cloth grill with a sort of a criss cross diagonal
metal grill on it,I think it dates back to the 1940's or earlier.I wish
I knew how to do my own radio repairs.
cuhulin.