Lewis: Sounds like you're deep in the grip of the DT's (Delusion by Tubes)enhanced by prolonged inhalation of solder smoke and laquer fumes. If you get this set, I have a 12Y parts chassis. Now, if I do manage to get this monster and bring it home, where can I find a good divorce lawyer? the cabinet looks like it has been in a train wreck, gouges, grill cloth torn, cigarette burns, dents, etc, etc. The hotel the bar is in was built in 1894, so the radio might have been sitting there since nineteen thirtysomething,when it was built for all I know. Man, would that be a restoration project or what. In another post on this site, it was implied that I might have been indulging in spirits when I saw that radio. Does it look like either one? Here is the url for the 12Y: ::Check out the 12Y or the 10Y1 in the radio attic archives. Before I get any ideas about procuring it, I would like to know a little more about it. Does this radio ring a bell with anyone? It looks like it might have a 12" dynamic speaker, what I could see through the torn grill cloth, it is in a handsome cabinet (well, it was handsome at one time) and looks as if it is or could be a very good radio. :::The wife and I were traveling around in East Georgia yesterday, and stopped in an old hotel bar for a drink, and they had an old Motorola radio, a large console, and it had five, I think control knobs sticking out the front, but it also has about fifteen or twenty buttons arranged in a circle around a clear plastic dial, I couldn't see for sure but I assume the frequency pointer is inside the clear plastic. :Check out the 12Y or the 10Y1 in the radio attic archives. Anybody with any ideas to locate a schematic wouild be appreciated.::The wife and I were traveling around in East Georgia yesterday, and stopped in an old hotel bar for a drink, and they had an old Motorola radio, a large console, and it had five, I think control knobs sticking out the front, but it also has about fifteen or twenty buttons arranged in a circle around a clear plastic dial, I couldn't see for sure but I assume the frequency pointer is inside the clear plastic. :I have searched through the schematics but as i have no model number it is difficult, maybe no us equivalent was made. :Th valve lineup is 6K8GT,6K7GT,6K7GT,6Q7GT,6V6GT, Rectifier and Vibrator pack, it has capacitor tuning. :Hi i have an old car radio built in the uk by world radios ltd london under licence from motorola. Both used a non-synchronous vibrator with either 0Z4 or 6X5 rectifier. Both were also made with either Loktal or Octal valves. Both use a 6A8 valve instead of the 6K8, and a 6K6 instead of the 6V6. I did find two 1939 models that are close. equivalent for your Motorola licensed World Radios Ltd.radio valve line-up.
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