How about a Silvertone Medalist console for a tube amp project?

[FoolForARadio]

I'd like to get the guts out of a console like so many I read about here, and hopefully end up with a tube amp. This console has two tubes in the preamp, I can see them, but I don't see the amplifier section. Is it likely to be tubes too, and is the Silvertone/Sears brand worth messing with? Beautiful console, I must say, but I really don't think I'd keep it as a console.

 

[FoolForARadio]

I decided "What the heck!"

Everything seems to be there and it looks as simple as anything I am liable to find. The preamp handles the record player and has a tape input and two aux inputs. So I am going to start down this road, hopefully with suggestions from you all. What's next?

 

[intotubes]

The middle pic is the amp. Looks to be a push pull EL-84. A very desirable amplifier. You may be able to use the pre as well since it doesn't have a tuner in it. Nice score!

 

[Tom Bavis]

Look for a model number - I may be able to find a reference for service info.

 

[FoolForARadio]

The tubes are

5U4 6BQ5

6BQ5 6BQ5 6BQ5

7025 7025

laid out something like that. The preamp tubes are a 12UA7 and another 7025.

No model number I can see. Please note the connections for sources into the preamp. What to you call that? Can it be made compatible with RCA type connections? Thanks.

 

[Tom Bavis]

"Oddball plug?" Easiest to just add some RCA jacks in parallel, since there's only the one mating plug...

 

[FoolForARadio]

"Oddball plug?" Easiest to just add some RCA jacks in parallel, since there's only the one mating plug...

See the 3-prong female connections in the pic of the preamp? That's what I mean, although you may have answered my question and I just don't know it.

With those tubes, what kind of output are we talking, what kind of speakers? Does it make sense that I don't see any fuses? The model number may be 280, although I think that refers to the mahogany veneer.

Thanks, CG