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What Is It? for 9/22/12

Posted September 22, 2012 9:33 PM by Mizuti

This weeks image!:

Edit: Since SolarEagle guessed it so very quickly, here's the inner workings of something. WHAT IS IT?!

Edit: Alright hotshots, here's a zoomed up picture of something. Last one for this week, sorry about the grainy quality!

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09/22/2012 9:59 PM

It's a portable cobbler's stand....

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09/22/2012 10:40 PM

I thought it might be a little too easy to guess, try this other one I threw on there for size :D

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09/22/2012 11:35 PM

Vintage radio...can't tell the brand or year though....maybe the 40's...

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09/23/2012 12:23 PM

Vintage 1946 RCA Victor Radio - Way to go! Got one more for you for this week. It's probably still easy, but we'll see.

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09/22/2012 11:52 PM

Here's one for you....

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09/23/2012 12:06 AM

Mr. Jeeves, at your service.

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09/24/2012 6:37 AM

Relic fron an early Flintstones outdoor theater.
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09/24/2012 8:10 AM

Scary!

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09/24/2012 6:20 AM

Gee, and I thought it was an early Bronze Age tooth extractor!

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09/23/2012 9:24 AM

Old AM/SW table radio. You can see the huge tuning capacitor on the left and the IF can in the middle. Antenna is wound in a coil on the back cover.
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09/23/2012 9:31 AM

HOT DAMN AH, you're good!

GA from me!

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09/23/2012 1:32 PM

Thank you!

Tube junkie, what can I say. I have my grandfather's old Motorola HiFi console waiting to be restored. That will be a cool project and fun to use when it is done later this year.

It won't kick butt like my stereo, but it will still be a blast to watch people's faces when they see it playing or listen to some shortwave broadcasts.
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09/23/2012 2:00 PM

I helped my brother take his Hallicrafters apart and rebuild. He made a new chassis in parts so he could look at the RF, IF and audio amplifiers separately. we played with several radios but I haven't see as many variable capacitors in on set before or since, it had two banks of them, the main tuners and the fine tuners.

Something like this one I just found on the web:

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09/23/2012 11:49 PM

Perhaps it hasn't IF because it was "tuned frequence radio" in oppositive of heterodine type.Sorry i dont know the correct english name for that.-
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09/24/2012 12:07 AM

I, too am a tube junky! I don't care what solid state witchcraft you can come up with, nothing equals the sound of a warm tube amplifier!! And yes, I play guitar :) I even bought a genuine Hickok 539B :)
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09/24/2012 8:11 AM

Is the seventies term 'HiFi' still in use?

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09/24/2012 8:44 AM

Most people know it as stereo, but before stereo was HiFi, which many of these old antique mono consoles were considered to be.
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09/24/2012 3:47 PM

'HiFi' has been around since at least the 50s. It stood for High Fidelity, and meant better quality sound than 'regular' fidelity. It was still mono.

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09/23/2012 12:36 PM

#3 car power supply converter ...

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09/23/2012 4:06 PM

Took this pic when I had a few days away with Mrs Cat... I think it may be a relative!
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09/23/2012 5:17 PM

Your hometown.
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09/23/2012 5:18 PM

Anyone look familiar here?

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09/24/2012 3:45 AM

Del wondering why his cat flap is suddendly 3 stories up....

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09/24/2012 4:52 AM

Made I splarf.

(... you can see I'm petrified)
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09/24/2012 7:42 AM

Now you see why the cat flap was moved

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09/23/2012 10:22 PM

Shoe last

Valve radio

Electric bike controller & battery

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09/23/2012 11:29 PM

The last picture is hard to see but looks like the insides of an RC vehicle, possibly an RC truck, vehicle scale unknown.

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09/24/2012 12:40 AM

That last one is a remote control unit on an RC "toy"

Looks alot like what I have on my toys.

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09/24/2012 4:58 AM

Last one is a Receiver & servo controller in a radio controlled car or airplane.

If I could make out the frequency I could tell you which since planes use different frequencies than cars do.

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