One of my "dream" radios finally found
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Nice!
Where did you find it?
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An antique store online. Been looking for one of these for over 3 years. There was one on eBay last year that sold for $350. I got this one (unrestored) for less than a third of that.
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I have this full page ad for the focused tone colorama from a December 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post framed above the radio. It features Bing Crosby, proving he wasn't just partial to Philcos! 
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Here's a picture of the chassis showing the bank of colored lights. I bought colored red and green vinyl sleeves to slip over the new #40 bulbs from Mouser. They work great and give excellent color contrast.
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Interesting set; thanks for the pictures and descriptions. The colorama sets are ones I haven't paid too much attention to until a few months ago, and your pictures nicely illustrate how the dial changes color.
Those red and green vinyl sleeves sure add nice color to the bulbs. Too bad the colored LED replacement bulbs from places like Pinball Life don't seem to come with a screw (type 40) base:
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=1883
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(02-28-2016, 03:44 AM)Eliot Ness Wrote: Interesting set; thanks for the pictures and descriptions. The colorama sets are ones I haven't paid too much attention to until a few months ago, and your pictures nicely illustrate how the dial changes color.
Those red and green vinyl sleeves sure add nice color to the bulbs. Too bad the colored LED replacement bulbs from places like Pinball Life don't seem to come with a screw (type 40) base:
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=1883
It's too bad, but you could not use those LED bulbs with the tuning indication system that these G.Es used, maybe with a regular 28 volt tuning light like Rogers and some other makes used but not these. It's one feature I wish that the Canadian G.Es models had, but most seem to have used clones of Canadian RCA chassis, but in a different cabinet.
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sharp looking GE
love the dial and lights 
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Glad you got it. I have a couple of specimens same as the one atop the refrigerator in my childhood days, they still play but mom is long gone. I didn't finish either one to vintage, but cleaned and completely mechanically/electrically restored the sets. Not much to listen to anymore on AM but they still work.
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Cool design.
Similar grill design exists in several others. Zenith, I think, is one of them.
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It sure is a beauty! Congrats. Joe
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