Home | What's New? | Site Map | Links | Help The tuning knob has a partial world globe, with latitude and longitude lines and the outlines of the continents, molded in.Īt left and below: From a 1936 RCA Victor brochure. RCA Victor Talking Machine Co Victrola Records Stand up Ad sign Nipper dog.
Unusual for a mid-1930s wood radio, the knobs are Bakelite. Vintage Tube AM Radio RCA Victor Globe Trotter Model 8BX6 AC DC Portable 1949. RCA should have taken some lessons from another manufacturer of the day, such as Zenith, and made a really pretty escutcheon. paper is totally gone etc but don't really see anything else missing. about half the tubes are missing, no dial cord, a few frayed wires, speaker. Too bad the dial escutcheon's so plain and boring. Saw an Rca Victor 29K 4-band floor radio with a really sharp cabinet and dial, looks like the original finish and grille cloth. Here's a closeup of the dial and control knobs.
Specifications and General Description - Service Data and Alignment Procedure, Cabinet Photo - Schematic Diagram and Chassis wiring Diagram - Socket Voltages, Coil and Trimmer Locations, Parts List RCA 5X5 Series (Chassis No.
Connect green wire in Radio-Record switch cable to terminal 1, yellow to terminal 2: and shield extension to terminal 3, Tape unused red and blue leads separately. Schematic Parts List Service Data Service Data Service Data Service Data RCA 5T1. Perhaps in an effort to hide the fact that the rectifier isn't one of the new metal tubes, the glass envelope of the 5Z3 is hidden inside a black-painted metal can.Īpproximately 19-3/4 inches / 502 mm tall. RCA Victor Models R-93, R-93-2, or R-93-S Record Players should be connected as follows: Remove link between terminals 1 and 2 on receiver. Tube complement: 6K7 RF, 6L7 mixer, 6J7 oscillator, 6K7 IF, 6H6 detector, 6C5 1st audio amp, 6C5 audio driver, (2) 6F6 push-pull audio output, 5Z3 rectifier.