[78-L] A blast from the past

[Sean Miller]

Excellent!  I knew you'd be able to get it running!

They do sound great, don't they?  

As far as the 25 cycle thing goes, I've heard of another of these motors in a Credenza on 25 cycle and it too worked fine on 60 cycle power.  I wish I had a logical explanation, but the motors run on two sets of coils that create a magnetic field to revolve the turntable.  As long as these are 110 volt motors, which I believe they are, it shouldn't be a problem, the worst that can happen is the motor could overheat and the fuse should blow, but I've never heard of this happening.

Congrats!
Sean

On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:24 PM, David Lennick wrote:

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> Something I never expected to see in working order..an RE-45 (Radio + Electrola) that sat unused in my parents' basement for overf 50 years.
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> It doesn't look that clean but it plays beautifully! A fellow offered to get it running in return for another old radio I didn't have room for and didn't care about all that much, and this afternoon he brought it over to the house and set it up. Capacitors and tubes replaced where necessary, the whole thing cleaned up inside and out, the missing thumbscrew that holds the needles was replaced, and I'm amazed at the sound this thing produces, both on radio (AM only) and on records. Original speaker, too. Rather surrealistic to hear news reports about the rioting in Toronto on an 81-year-old radio. (Yeah, we got rioting..and we had an earthquake the other day..wanna make something of it?)
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