Mikado receiver pick up

[scoloheros]

I'd never heard of the brand but found a few threads about it. Just posting pics here, it's a Mikado model 2450, "The Statesman". I dug around and found out they were available in 1967 and maybe made to 1969. I think this one was made in 1968 going by what looks like a date stamped on it. I picked it up at a thrift store for around $25, looks kind of cheap but it's made better than it looks at a glance. The knobs are solid aluminum. I found an old article in a hi-fi magazine, this one sold for $199.95 when new. I don't know what fuse value to use on the back, the main fuse says 15 amps but I can't find anything for the other two channel fuses. It looks like it's only a couple of years old but that won't help the old capacitors. I'm guessing it would sound OK when up and running.

 

[Watthour]

I've never heard of the brand either. We all know the Kabuki play/opera, but as a receiver it's news to me. It doesn't look like the worst thing ever made.

Pretty crazy that it has output transformers, but it somewhat makes sense with a push/pull and no output capacitors.

 

[goodolpg]

I see that brand mentioned every few years, fairly rare evidently.
That is CLEAN inside.
You asking about the two fuses near the vents on the rear, one has a cover, the other doesn't?
What are those rated at, should be stamped on the fuses chrome end pieces. Nothing on the inside back cover near the fuses indicating rating? I can see most of the area for the brown/yellow fuse wires, anything next to the blue green wires?
Or maybe you could track the wires (brown, yellow, blue, green) from the fuses, see where they go and see if there is a fuse rating there (probably not).

 

[scoloheros]

I see that brand mentioned every few years, fairly rare evidently.
That is CLEAN inside.
You asking about the two fuses near the vents on the rear, one has a cover, the other doesn't?
What are those rated at, should be stamped on the fuses chrome end pieces. Nothing on the inside back cover near the fuses indicating rating? I can see most of the area for the brown/yellow fuse wires, anything next to the blue green wires?
Or maybe you could track the wires (brown, yellow, blue, green) from the fuses, see where they go and see if there is a fuse rating there (probably not).

I wonder if it stopped working soon and was shelved, but maybe it was just well taken care of. The "ON" lettering is missing at the power switch so looks like it was turned on and off a lot. I finally looked at the old fuses, one is a 2.0 amp fuse and the other is 0.5. It's like somebody said, "Hey, here's a fuse, ...and here's another one, ...get in there!", and didn't even look or know to look at the amp values. I'll look inside to see if there's fuse info in there.

 

[Shrugg]

Looks like it had some sort of repair job done to it sometime in the past as well, given the mismatched output transistors. Makes me wonder what happened to it as well. For the fuse rating, I would guess it would be about .5 amps to 1 amp on each side, given that this is a low wattage receiver. I would try .75 amps slo blow on each side, which is likely close to what the receiver would have had originally. Since the receiver uses output transformers, there is no chance of DC voltage making it to the speakers, so the fuse is just there to protect against overcurrents produced by the receiver.

 

[chazix]

main fuse says 15 amps

No way that receiver would have had a 15A main fuse originally! If there is no marking, I'd suggest trying a 2A for the main.

 

[Martyo]

That is definitely too clean inside for a thrift shop find. Good job. I found my Mikado X2412 for $10 at a used record store. Works but tuner string is way off and my bench already was a line of jobs. I'll get to it someday. hahahaha