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FDR wrote:
"RHF" wrote in message ups.com... The "Handles" were in style at the time of manufacture. So just asthetics. Not exclusively. The forward handles, were common on radios with a high profile and gross weight. In the event of a tip over, they prevented the knobs/switches from being crushed, broken or the face cracked. |
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It doesn't take long for those leather handles and leather radio cases
to rot away either.I have a bunch of radios with rotten handles and a few rotten leather cases. cuhulin |
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D Peter Maus ) writes: FDR wrote: "RHF" wrote in message ups.com... The "Handles" were in style at the time of manufacture. So just asthetics. Not exclusively. The forward handles, were common on radios with a high profile and gross weight. In the event of a tip over, they prevented the knobs/switches from being crushed, broken or the face cracked. Then wouldn't that be a "rollbar" and not a handle? Michael |
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Michael Black wrote:
D Peter Maus ) writes: FDR wrote: "RHF" wrote in message groups.com... The "Handles" were in style at the time of manufacture. So just asthetics. Not exclusively. The forward handles, were common on radios with a high profile and gross weight. In the event of a tip over, they prevented the knobs/switches from being crushed, broken or the face cracked. Then wouldn't that be a "rollbar" and not a handle? Michael Only if you'd pick up a Cobra by the fixture behind the driver's seat. |
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There are no bids yet on that GE radio, and I'd buy it in a second, if I
did not already have one of these excellent instruments. I prefer it to any recent Superradio I've seen, and the sound is pwerful and clear. Constructon includes a die-cast frame as a speaer baffle and antenna counterpoise. This is no piece of junk like the new Superradios; tuning is smooth and spread out well, even into theupper end of the (non-expanded) band, and it is stable, not drifting off like the new SR's because of crappy mechanicals and microscopic bandspread. I have had this one for maybe 5 years, bought it at a garage sale for $10 and used it daily ever since (like right now). There was an excellent website telling the development and some design principles of this radio, but I cannot find it right now. It was written by one fthe cheif designers and also tells of the state of GE at the time. Very interesting. This radio was intended from the start to be a classic for its time and beyond. If anybody has the model number, use that for a Google search and the site will show up. There is no model numer on the radio, but Iran across one on another radio site and went from there. I'd gladly spend $30 or more for this old radio, it is so good. Don't miss your chance (no, that is no mine on ebay, mine is playing softly on the table on my back porch, like it is every day). And, I am not selling mine, don't ask. |
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cuhulin wrote:"It doesn't take long for those leather handles and
leather radio cases to rot away . . ." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ How long,35 or 40 years? I'fd write a letter. |
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The very last issue of "White's Radio Log" I ever saw (which I bought
at a newstand in May, 1986) has that radio on the cover. It was a classic - used to see them frequently. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I don't know,but I read years ago the first so-called GE "super radios"
were the best ones. cuhulin |
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I never bid on anything on ebay or any online auctions.Now,if a seller
on ebay has something I am interested in and if he or she includes his or her email address,I might,just might,email that person and make an offer,take it or leave it.Actually,I despise auctions. cuhulin |
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I own an old Sears Travler big old heavy,and I do mean heavy,multiband
radio that is outstanding at picking up long distance AM radio stations.I bought that radio for $2.00 at a Goodwill thrift store store about eight years ago.Trouble is,the on/off/volume control has just about gone bonkers.I can get it to work,but I have to mess around with it for a hundred years.I am hell when I am well,trouble is,I stay sick all the time :{) cuhulin |
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