Featured
Latest
Identify the knob.
 
Share:
Notifications
Clear all

Forum 135

Workshop Identify the knob.

35 Posts
5 Users
2 Reactions
500 Views
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

 Chris's thread about identifying the LOPT reminded me of a competition Gerry used to do at the garden parties at the Museum. 

Can you Identify the knobs in the pictures? Some are easy some not so IMHO. one point for the make, a second for model. Just for fun ! 

Rich

20230524 182503
20230524 182635
20230524 182549
20230524 182654
20230524 182719
20230524 182727
20230524 182450

 

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 5:50 pm
Pye Man
(@pye-man)
Posts: 591
Honorable Member Registered
 

Well, I just had to look...

Nick

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 6:40 pm
PYE625
(@pye625)
Posts: 5114
Famed Member Registered
 

I reckon the second pic is a KB MR10, third is on a RAP (646 or 846), fourth is looking like a Philips. Last one could be a KB minuet, but just a guess.

The rest I have no idea.

To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 7:51 pm
Cathovisor
(@cathovisor)
Posts: 6526
Famed Member Registered
 

Second deffo KB, third RAP, sixth Ultra - probably T401.

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 8:21 pm
LSmith
(@lsmith)
Posts: 54
Trusted Member Registered
 

I would say number 6 is an Ultra U405 or similar model. Not sure about the rest.

Laurence

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 8:25 pm
slidertogrid reacted
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @pye-man

Well, I just had to look...

I bet you were expecting to see a picture of a politician?! 😀  

 

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 8:27 pm
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @pye625

I reckon the second pic is a KB MR10, third is on a RAP (646 or 846), fourth is looking like a Philips. Last one could be a KB minuet, but just a guess.

The rest I have no idea.

Correct- correct- No- No . 😀 

 

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 8:29 pm
PYE625 reacted
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @cathovisor

Second deffo KB, third RAP, sixth Ultra - probably T401.

All correct! 

 

 
Posted : 24/05/2023 8:30 pm
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Some clues for the ones not yet correctly identified. 1 - Arthur. 4 - not a Pye- not a radio. 5 - Not Edison. 6 - Everybody loves. 7 - Jules not Sarah.

 
Posted : 25/05/2023 1:30 pm
PYE625
(@pye625)
Posts: 5114
Famed Member Registered
 

Ah-ha.... No7 is a Ferguson Flair 344B

No4 a record player?

To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.

 
Posted : 25/05/2023 5:05 pm
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @pye625

Ah-ha.... No7 is a Ferguson Flair 344B

No4 a record player?

Yes Correct No7 Ferguson flair . No 4 not a record player.

 

 
Posted : 25/05/2023 5:11 pm
PYE625
(@pye625)
Posts: 5114
Famed Member Registered
 

No1 Arthur in the clue.... Am thinking Arthur "Mullard", but the model... well that escapes me.

To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.

 
Posted : 26/05/2023 4:40 pm
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

I must admit this one is very uncommon. Arthur owned the company, the radios were sold under his surname... My set is a UK version but they were made in Philadelphia.

 
Posted : 26/05/2023 4:56 pm
Cathovisor
(@cathovisor)
Posts: 6526
Famed Member Registered
 

Posted by: @slidertogrid

I must admit this one is very uncommon. Arthur owned the company, the radios were sold under his surname... My set is a UK version but they were made in Philadelphia.

As in Rank?

 

 
Posted : 26/05/2023 9:15 pm
PYE625
(@pye625)
Posts: 5114
Famed Member Registered
 

Is No5 a Tesla Talisman 308u ?

To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.

 
Posted : 26/05/2023 9:44 pm
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @cathovisor

Posted by: @slidertogrid

I must admit this one is very uncommon. Arthur owned the company, the radios were sold under his surname... My set is a UK version but they were made in Philadelphia.

As in Rank?

 

No. This set dates from 1935 it is a 'Tombstone' Arthur kept the factory going throughout the depression and stockpiled the radios, he closed it down not long after my set was made and retired. I bought my set from a junkshop in llantwit Major in 1983. I don't think they were that common over here but I do have a Radiogram of the same make in my collection.  

 

 
Posted : 27/05/2023 8:11 am
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Posted by: @pye625

Is No5 a Tesla Talisman 308u ?

It is indeed  A Tesla Talisman 308U! 

 

 
Posted : 27/05/2023 8:14 am
Cathovisor
(@cathovisor)
Posts: 6526
Famed Member Registered
 

@slidertogrid Penny's just dropped.

Atwater Kent. 

 
Posted : 27/05/2023 8:20 am
slidertogrid
(@slidertogrid)
Posts: 1199
Prominent Member Registered
Topic starter
 

Only 4 and 6 to go .   4 - is a TV set, but not a Pye...  6 - American sitcom. Not a Frasier.. before that sitcom.

 
Posted : 27/05/2023 8:22 am
Cathovisor
(@cathovisor)
Posts: 6526
Famed Member Registered
 

This'll make it look messy, but Atwater Kent? 

 
Posted : 27/05/2023 8:23 am
Page 1 / 2
Share: