"as Dave noted, gas regulator tubes were quite common in circuits where you need a stable voltage. There were 3 regularly used tubes in the octal ear: 0B3, 0C3 and 0D3, which regulated voltage at 90, 110 and 150 respectively. The neon lamps Scott…"
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Allwave Type 150 amplifier
Started this discussion. Last reply by Robert Feenstra May 20. 6 Replies 0 Likes
In late 1931, Scott offered an "auditorium amplifier" with the Allwave 2-dial set. Until recently, we only knew of this from Scott materials, but fellow collector John Meredith located one of these…Continue
Pre-1930 Scott advertising
Started this discussion. Last reply by Brad Winder Apr 12. 2 Replies 0 Likes
For the election of 1928, E. H. Scott put his Shield Grid 9 radio on Chicago & Northwestern trains so passengers could hear election results. He not only built fine radios, he knew how to market…Continue
Being sequestered
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kent King Mar 28. 1 Reply 1 Like
OK folks, since many of us are stuck at home - what Scott projects are you working on? We've seen a lot from Rob, he's keeping busy! I have started to scan all the correspondence I have...many…Continue
ARCI (Illinois) meet this August
Started this discussion. Last reply by John T. Meredith Apr 18, 2019. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Folks -I am honored to have been asked to speak at the Illinois radio meet on Sat Aug 3. The theme for their meet is Art Deco and my talk will be about Scott in the Art Deco era. I've got some ideas…Continue
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Dans Model 510
"Dan -
That is a Scott model 510, circa 1950. Built after Scott left the company but it is a good sounding set with modern FM. There is no info on these in the Scott Info Archive, but I do have information on the 510. If you'd like info on the…"
"That tag goes on the smaller, inner plate over the wave change coils. It is under the larger, full chassis bottom plate. Hope that makes sense."
"I was going to send mine to Advanced Plating in Tennessee. I've heard good things. I think all plating shops are expensive!"
"I had John arrange the chroming once I stripped it down, he used a place in Texas. Rather expensive I thought, but they did a very nice job. They had to fix a corner of the chassis...looked like it had been dropped at some point and bent in the…"
"Nice. Who is your chrome shop?"
"NICE. Impressive change of looks from rust bucket to factory fresh."
"Wow Kent, phenomenal job. "
"Wow, very pretty, Nice job Kent."
Allwave Type 150 amplifier
In late 1931, Scott offered an "auditorium amplifier" with the Allwave 2-dial set. Until recently, we only knew of this from Scott materials, but fellow collector John Meredith located one of these units. He asked me to restore it and I finished it up this weekend. A longer story will appear in one of the radio journals sometime in the future. As with most Scott items, it doesn't exactly match his provided schematic, although the changes to this unit do make sense.…See More
"Steve - A very high quality reproduction is still available. Email me at kent3256@hotmail.com and I'll give you details and get one to you. - Kent"
"Jiri - Thank you for the serial number, new to me. I don't have any messages here from May 3 or my personal email (kent3256@hotmail.com).
Kent"
"I would love to get the serial number. The cabinet is reminiscent of a jukebox to me. Not a horrible price, that translates to about $400 USD. Unfortunately, it is in the wrong location."
"Definite LIKE...very nicely done!"
"For the yellow wire...connect it to the grid lead of the 76 tube that acts as the tuning meter amplifier. That grid is connected to the diode load (AVC). It should give good action on the eye.
Kent"
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Phish Tales
Posted on July 3, 2018 at 10:33am 0 Comments 2 Likes
All - The moderators removed an account that was a bit "phishy" today. We try hard to keep these folks off the forum, but every once in awhile, one gets in. Please ignore/delete any questionable messages and let's keep on talking Scotts!
Kent
Super XII Troubleshooting & Alignment
Posted on July 10, 2017 at 8:04am 1 Comment 0 Likes
I've spent several days working on a particularly difficult chassis and learned something I thought I'd share. First, here is what I had to start with: A nice single chassis Super XII. The IF aligned beautifully, and the 3 SW bands also aligned "by the book". The set sounded great on any SW band, AM was basically dead. There are only 3 things that are AM only, so I verified each coil. While checking continuity on the oscillator coil, I happened to notice that the 1K resistor seemed to move a…
ContinueSuper XII Restoration
Posted on January 27, 2017 at 1:48pm 8 Comments 0 Likes
A Fast Tour
The first step I always take is to remove all the tubes, shields, covers and anything else that can be removed from the chassis. This leaves us with something that looks like this:
And underneath we have:…
Shield Grid 9 SW coils
Posted on February 11, 2016 at 10:03pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Scott made plug-in SW coils for the Shield Grid 9. I'm researching them a bit and I could use more data points. If ANY of you have some of the SG9 SW coils, please contact me. I've got a few questions for you. Thanks!
Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 4:54pm on March 3, 2010,
Merle Jones said…
- Hello Kent, long time since we've last spoke. Thanks for the invite. I look forward to conversing with you and all the other Scott collectors and seeing their nice radios. -Merle
- At 6:34pm on May 23, 2011,
Thomas Day said…
Kent;
In a post you mentioned having a check list for the allwave 23. Is there a link to that here?
Having a new transformer made and want to be sure everything else is good. The power supply had been re capped at some point. Haven't looked at the main chassis yet except to determine that it needed one tube which I have replaced. I have the operation and service manuals coming from Great Northern.
Thanks
Thom
- At 10:20pm on April 1, 2012,
Renee A. Zeller said…
Kent.....thank you..... I would love more information on the Sheraton cabinet with a Laureate chassis - if you could provide some PDF's that would be wonderful. This has been sitting in the corner of my Great Grandfathers cabin ever since I was young.....I never realized what it was until last summer when I uncovered it and looked at it....but I finally took some pictures so I could ask about it. Thank you again for your time.....I may bug you again with a few more questions when I take a look at it closer this Spring when I am up North at the cabin! Renee:). If you'd like to email the PDF's my e-mail is renee54636@charter.net Thanks:)
- At 11:35am on December 28, 2012,
Richard Green said…
Kent, got a quick question. In photos 19 thru 24 of your photos, what is that device? I have something like that has either 5 or 6 of those tubes.
Thanks,
Richard
- At 4:05pm on December 28, 2012,
Kent King said…
That is the Scott FM converter...it changes 88-108 FM down to 42-50 so that the older FM tuners could receive the modern band established post-war. The 717A tubes are used in a number of higher frequency applications. If your device has 5 or 6 of them, it could be most anything....
- At 7:46pm on December 28, 2012,
Thanks,
I'll have to dig it out of the garage tomorrow. Maybe I can find out more info from google, now what I know it is.
Richard
aka pslmsngr
- At 8:23pm on March 2, 2013,
Hi Kent,
I am not sure what to do with this one. I thought I may be able
to strip it and re-crome, but that would stretch my abilities quite a bit.
I'm sure I could get it to work if it was just a re-capp and resistor/coil
check, its not so difficult electrically. All the parts are there. The cabinet is nice, the original owner stripped it so it just needs a refinish. I really don’t want to pay
much for a good chassis, so I am not sure what to do. I'll have to check
the serial number and get back to you.
Steve
- At 7:49am on March 4, 2013,
Steve -
I would like the serial number for my research. Actually, rechroming a 23 will probably cost as much (if not more) than locating a nice chassis....so it you want to get it operating, I'd say "Go for it". You are right, even if it isn't pretty, you will be able to make it play, and it will sound great. It's worth the effort! If you need anything along the way, just ask, folks here are always glad to help!
Kent
- At 8:38am on December 28, 2013,
Hi Kent,
Working on pics and serial #'s, but what is meant by the term "Serbs"?
Thanks, Darrell
- At 6:33pm on November 19, 2016,
Joseph W Strickland said…
Kent;
I have been cleaning up the schematic for the early (Feb. 1946) schematics for the 800B. Here are those two pages. I am working on another page that combines the radio tuner circuit and the electric tuning circuit on one page. The paper size is printable on 11 X 17 inch paper for the two files included here.
Joe
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