Yesterday my wife presented me with a 1966 Sears Silvertone Clock radio, model 6048. The clock turned on but the radio did not. I opened the case to find it was a vacuum tube device, so before I tore it down I took it a meeting of one of my amateur radio clubs, which happened to be last night, to see if anyone wanted to play with it. There was some curiosity, but no takers, so I tore it down.
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| Case open, pre teardown |
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| Torn down |
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| Salvaged Parts |
After all that, I wound up with pretty much what I expected: a speaker, some knobs, 2 POTs, and some screws. I also kept the transformer for the speaker--cursory research reveals that a permanent magnet speaker may need a transformer. I do not know if that's a function of the radio or the speaker--but I will try to find out. I also kept the internal antenna, just for grins.
So, a piece of history bites the dust, but hopefully I will have some use for the parts.
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