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An RCA 140
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Wow! That is a great job on that radio! The guy I bought my 140 off of had a little Simplex that he wanted $150, that was in pieces and had the back of the cabinet damaged by being carried from the top. I decided on the 140 instead, though it wasn't cheap. Odd thing about my 140: it has a servicing stamp on it from Aug. 25th, 1945. During that time, it appears they completed rebuilt the chassis and redid it for all 6 volt tubes in the original sockets! Possibly the power transformer was dead and wartime limitations left them with only 6 volt transformers? A friend of mine has seen this done before on wartime radios. The question is: to restore fully to original or leave the wartime modification in there? Looks original until you look at the numbers on the tubes themselves. Icon_confused

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An RCA 140 - by exray - 09-28-2010, 08:41 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 09-28-2010, 08:46 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Ron Ramirez - 09-28-2010, 08:58 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 09-28-2010, 09:37 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Alan Douglas - 09-29-2010, 06:34 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by denver - 09-29-2010, 07:53 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 09-29-2010, 11:17 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 09-30-2010, 09:46 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 10-02-2010, 09:07 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Ken G - 10-11-2010, 08:05 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Allen in SB - 10-17-2010, 12:51 AM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 10-17-2010, 07:07 AM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 10-17-2010, 05:15 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Doug Houston - 11-23-2010, 01:30 AM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 11-23-2010, 06:06 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 11-24-2010, 08:19 AM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 11-29-2010, 06:27 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by FStephenMasek - 12-01-2010, 11:48 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Jayce - 12-02-2010, 03:38 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by exray - 12-02-2010, 04:40 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Ron Ramirez - 12-03-2010, 12:18 AM
Re: An RCA 140 - by TA Forbes - 12-09-2010, 09:07 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by Doug Houston - 01-01-2011, 08:44 PM
Re: An RCA 140 - by theboyzz - 01-29-2011, 12:14 AM



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