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| Some radio collectors like to buy and restore eccentric sets. This is a very eccentric
set! It's actually a Philips Superinductance, but it's not an Ovaltiney. This comes from the other end of the
Superinductance period, when everyone else was making superhets, and TRF sets like this were fading into obscurity.
It has a proper pair of Superinductance coils inside, complete with copper-colour cans, though they are a little
smaller than the ones in the Ovaltiney era. It is also for AC/DC mains, and it uses a C1 barretter for dropping
the volts to light the valves. Better still, in stead of using some reasonably nice English valves, it uses
Dutch ones with European Side-Contact valve bases. You can still get these, but they are a little way off the
beaten track. This is the very last of the Superinductances, and it's not terribly sought-after by buyers of
pretty radios, so the price is still reasonable. This is a good chance to get hold of something really strange,
which will keep you happily engaged in the sport of second-guessing Philips design engineers for several hours.
Actually, I have restored these before and they do work surprisingly well. There are, as you'd expect, moans.
The Philips badge is missing from the dial surround, and someone has blu-tacked in a post-war Philips badge. Then
again, if you fitted it properly, it would be better than a hole. The mains connector on the back of the chassis
is built on a piece of paxolin which is cracked (but not snapped off). The top-cap connector to the output valve
is all broken up inside (replacement supplied with set). Finally, the dial lamp is supported by a little bit
of Paxolin which has snapped off. If you can cope with a Superinductance, you can cope with those little snags.
Go on, you know you like a challenge!
Size: 44cm High, 38cm Wide, 23cm Deep. Just email me if you want this one!
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