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| This is the best thing I've had for sale for a very long time. It's gorgeous in every
way. This is the last generation of Mc.Michael sets which looked like 1920s sets, being in wooden boxes with lift-
up lids. After this, they became radio-shaped things. The circuit is reasonably advanced for the year, being
an RF pentode, followed by a triode leaky-grid detector with reaction, and then an output valve. The whole
thing is beautifully put together, and the condition is outstanding throughout. The case is not small, because
it has room to hide the HT battery, the accumulator, and the grid bias battery inside. However, if you can find
room for it, you will have a fine thing. It doesn't have a built-in speaker, so an external one will be needed.
I think this set would have been a bit disappointed with a horn loudspeaker when it was new, so if you can find
a nice ornate cabinet holding a paper cone speaker of some sort, I think that would be in keeping. The only tiny
niggle with this set concerns the plug-in coils. The set uses a pair of plug-in coils, and would originally have
had an alternative set for Long Wave. These are missing. Also, the coil in the RF amplifier stage is from a Mc.Michael
screened three, which means it's pretty much an identical coil, which will work just fine, but it's strictly
the worng coil for the set. It looks right, and it'll work right, but it's actually wrong. Such an outstanding set is not cheap, but I had to pay sensible money for this, because very few people sell good things for low prices. If you like very early radios which also have the decency to work well, this is the right set for you. It will be a fairly simple restoration, and the performance will be quite good.
Size: 31cm High, 68cm Wide, 30cm Deep. Just email me if you want this one!
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