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Topic: Old Sears Silvertone Radio
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Evans A Criswell
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 12-10-2001 01:53 PM
Since some people here are knowledgeable concerning old projection equipment, I figure someone here might can help me, or direct me to a good information source concerning the following:My parents have an old Sears Silvertone console radio that is approximately 4 feet high and 2 feet wide. It is an AM radio (top third) with a drawer in the middle third of the cabinet that contains a turntable (78 RPM only). The bottom third of the radio is the cloth-covered area where the speaker is. The only number I saw on the radio is on the back of the radio part (where the tubes are) that has "Chassis number 101-660-1A". I'd really like to know when this radio was manufactured. We aquired it in 1972 (when they bought the house we lived in in Cherokee County, AL) and we've never had to change a tube in it and it still plays, and has been an excellent AM radio. Knowing the manufacture date and how much the thing might be worth would be interesting. I grew up listening to that radio every morning when I lived with my parents.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
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posted 12-10-2001 03:12 PM
Thanks, John, for the links. I emailed one guy the information at one of the sites. Spending $30 to order a book that may or may not tell me when it was manufactured seems a bit pricey, so hopefully someone with a book will look it up for me. I had already tried searching for the chassis number on WWW search engines with no luck, and none of the pictures I've found so far have matched it.I really like old stuff like that, especially in working order!
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 12-11-2001 01:26 PM
Evans:Most Sears stuff has a model number that goes like this: 528.XXXXXXX. The 3 numbers before the period are the manufacturer source number. 528 used to be Wells-Gardener, but since they are gone, it is now a generic source number for many TV parts that the poor Sears techs have to use. Good Luck! PS: has it got a green tuning eye? (Ken Layton tells me that Wells-Gardener is still in business as of 12/12/01)
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