I hate to start out the new year with this news, but one of our site members passed away a couple months ago and the family is looking to sell his collection. He has many radios other than Scott, but…See More
"I like to add hear an observation. There was a nice condition, working Louis XV with a FM Phantom chassis on eBay over a year ago located in southern California. The seller started the bidding…"
"Those bias cells had such low burden upon them by virtue of their position in the circuit I don't think they were ever really thought of as consumables."
"Thanks for the info. I seem to remember seeing something like it before in a set, but left it intact because the radio worked quite well without any attention to that component. That being said, I…"
"That isn't in a Scott - but I can tell you what it is...it is a small button battery to provide a bit of bias voltage for a tube. Depending on the set, it may be between 1.5 and 6 volts, but if…"