Hi Guys,
About a month ago, I found a couple of radios out the front of another house that were looking very lonely!
One was a smallish Sharp AM deluxe radio with a solid cast front panel and solid steel control knobs and beside it was a more interesting larger radio tape player.
It looked complete and intact apart from a broken handle base. Let me introduce the National Model SG-149 from 1972!! Think of it as a pre-FM mono VZ2000.
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The previous owner had cut the fixed AC cable so the first thing to do was replace the cable so I could start testing the old girl. It has two rear covers, one for the battery compartment and the other for the power cord compartment. The rear battery cover has 2 spare cassette slots included.
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After plugging it in, nothing worked. But after cleaning all the pots and particularly the power switch, full function was restored. The tape is also working but will need belts soon.
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I'm sitting there thinking this thing is really thick until I pull down on the switch on the front cover and then realise it has an internal record player! This thing must have cost a packet back in the day. The side panels and internal chassis are all steel making it a very solid piece of kit.
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The record player is a direct drive and automatically senses the size and thus the speed required for the record you're playing.
It has speakers in the rear section that play 'through' the front phono/tape deck panel!
Anyway, it's a pretty ordinary sounding unit but as a now fully working unit, I think it deserves to survive it's brush with the crusher!
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About a month ago, I found a couple of radios out the front of another house that were looking very lonely!
One was a smallish Sharp AM deluxe radio with a solid cast front panel and solid steel control knobs and beside it was a more interesting larger radio tape player.It looked complete and intact apart from a broken handle base. Let me introduce the National Model SG-149 from 1972!! Think of it as a pre-FM mono VZ2000.
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The previous owner had cut the fixed AC cable so the first thing to do was replace the cable so I could start testing the old girl. It has two rear covers, one for the battery compartment and the other for the power cord compartment. The rear battery cover has 2 spare cassette slots included.
View attachment 19289
After plugging it in, nothing worked. But after cleaning all the pots and particularly the power switch, full function was restored. The tape is also working but will need belts soon.
View attachment 19291
I'm sitting there thinking this thing is really thick until I pull down on the switch on the front cover and then realise it has an internal record player!
This thing must have cost a packet back in the day. The side panels and internal chassis are all steel making it a very solid piece of kit.View attachment 19290
The record player is a direct drive and automatically senses the size and thus the speed required for the record you're playing.
It has speakers in the rear section that play 'through' the front phono/tape deck panel!
Anyway, it's a pretty ordinary sounding unit but as a now fully working unit, I think it deserves to survive it's brush with the crusher!
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