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Motorola ID Help?

Harlon

Harlon

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So I showed this from Craigslist to my wife this evening. Now it looks like I may have convinced her that my new hobby isn't such a bad thing.
Can anyone help identify either the console or the amp chassis. It looks like it may be one of the 3 channel 6bq5 amps, but not sure.
Thanks

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The top pic is a floor standing model but is mono lo-fi. Not sure of the brand. The pic to the right looks to be the back side of the top pic and if so, the turntable is not original to that model. The bottom pic is a 3 channel Motorola amp. Looks to be a 6CA4 and maybe 6BM8 tubes.
 
Doing some searching I think it's a hs-7803. 1 6bq5 for bass and a pair of single ended ecl82s for treble.
Anyone have any experience with these?
 
Here are a couple more pics. So Cademan, you think it is a replacement TT? 6BM8 is an ECL82 I think.
I'm not afraid of the rough, but was it a decent quality unit when it started.
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The Motorola TT, Preamp, and ECL82 amp date from about 1962. The Upright radio from about 10-14 years earlier. Single Ended 6BM8 is good for about 6-8watts Ideally. No idea who manufactured the console tho.
 
Wow, looks like some kind of ingenious conversion. They put a Motorola stereo console preamp, amp and turntable into an old floor standing radio. I wonder if the floor stander works? It's probably all there for a restoration except if it needed a field coil speaker.
 
Don't know yet, the guy who has it is playing hard to get, looks like it's missing one ECL82 and a few knobs. With the top end not matching the bottoms it may be a bit of a nightmare. I know I can handle the amp. Not so sure about the older radio. If they haven't been knocked out of adjustment are they as easy to work on as an amp?

I don't know, it might be worth the headache just to get the wife on board. So far she's very anti-tube. This is the first thing that has gotten her intrigued.

The power supply looks huge, any idea what kind of volts something like this would be pushing.
 
The radio is a Philco 46-209 AM/Shortwave model w/78 rpm TT. It uses a pair of 6V6s in PP for power.
 
Correction it is a 47-1230. It has fm in addition to the rest.

So I'll get my wife to fall in love with the top and I'll have fun in the bottom.

That is if the guy ever comes out of hiding.
 
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