...This time, Not my house!
I trawl through Rightmove and Zoopla a few times a week, to see what's about in my local area and compare my house to the market. (Basically proving im quids in!) I also regularly contact vendors asking about furniture, fireplaces etc.
The other day, I spotted a house about 100yds from my parents, on Rightmove. Lurking in the kitchen, Standing out like a sore thumb was this early 50s HMV Radiogram!
Course me being me, I did some digging and found the guy on facebook who was selling the house. A quick message later, and the set was mine. We arranged on £25 and i'll be collecting it tomorrow!
Bargain! - I'll be keeping you posted. No idea where im going to put it mind... oops...
That's late 40s, Jamie - model 1608 http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hismasters_1608.html
Word of warning though - those record changers are nasty...! You'll need a supply of Columbia '99' needles for that, easily available on eBay. 78 only, naturally.
They have one in the 1940s themed tea shop near one of my storage areas 🙂
Oooh, Nice thanks. I had an inkling it was late forties, but I based my assumption on age on the tabletop set of the era featuring the same buttons etc. (HMV 1117)
I don't think he deck will get much use anyway lol, and it's just as well by the sounds of it.
On the contrary - when someone tells me something's nasty or never works, I view that as a challenge to prove them wrong! Done that a couple of times to people... 
Well ! That's ingenuity if ever I saw it Jamie.... Has to be the lowest priced purchase via Rightmove
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
Nice find, I never thought of Rightmove as a source of vintage stuff before!
Regards,
Lloyd.
Well, Here it is. A local set, Complete with a players card packet and a joker inside plus a whole load of cobwebs.
No sign of fire, or capacitors going pop which is good. The cabinet isn't amazing, but worm free and pretty presentable given it's age. I cannot tell you how heavy this set truly is though, I have other stuff the same size and couldn't believe it when I tried to lift it! I reckon it's close to 150kg. The wood is over an inch thick, and that is an angled piece of iron/steel underneath!
Did you really mean 150kg, Jamie? That's three bags of coal...!
It looks the part in that setting. Now you have to get it working 
Just thought I ought to mention that when I click on your photo's Jamie, I get a McAfee webAdvisor warning of "high risk".
Whether this is of any significance, I really don't know. 
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
It looks a beauty! Not sure about the cob-webs though, they make me feel a little uneasy!!
No problems viewing the pictures here, that Mcafee webadvisor thing sounds like one of those annoying things that gets bundled in with flash player updates when you forget to untick the 'yes! please do install garbage on my PC!!' box.. You can tell I get very annoyed with software companies sneaking crap into my PC.... Microsoft put Windows 10 on my pc... I now plan to remove it with a hammer!
Regards,
Lloyd
The turntable could survive a nuclear war, it is built so well and solidly.
I restored the same deck in a smaller HMV gram for a friend who wanted to play 78's on the odd occasion. Trouble is, due to the type of stylus, the records would have a hard life.
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
Lloyd said
That Mcafee webadvisor thing sounds like one of those annoying things that gets bundled in with flash player updates when you forget to untick the 'yes! please do install garbage on my PC!!' box.. You can tell I get very annoyed with software companies sneaking crap into my PC....
Regards,Lloyd
Agreed,
I fell foul of that one about a month ago - Well banjaxed my laptop, then to add insult to injury, I got duped into trialling AVG "Clean & Tune Up".... Mega big mistake - Ended up in a system restore................ Right back to September 2016!!!
Anyway, Jamie, that's one smart radiogram you have there, but do get the spiders out of it otherwise you'll wake with nightmares of tiny legs crawling about all over the bed!
Otherwise, it looks to be in good shape, inside and out.
