20.01.2019, 23:33
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Hello and welcome to my next renovation project.
I'm sorry for writing in English, but it's still hard for me to write longer texts in German.
For a quite some time I was looking for a missing Saba from a season 35/36 – model 530 or 531 (I'm missing 336, but it's not so needed). I noticed those are really hard to find. Around a month ago I saw an auction with very bad 530WL starting from around 0.25 Euro. Finally I won that auction for 10 Euro – but radio was missing loudspeaker, knobs, transformer and tubes. But even so... I picked up radio from seller who gave me also two bad and partly dismantled chassis from 531WL and 335WL.
I decided on rebuilding the radio as best as I can (I have quite some part collection from Saba radios) – seems like pointless work but I have a soft spot for models from that season – apparently very few people like them.
First, two pictures from the auction:
9d0b4cfe4b7a92558b62d24dbe40.jpg (Größe: 203,56 KB / Downloads: 369)
9d97af184b6392e852db2086751b.jpg (Größe: 209,62 KB / Downloads: 366)
About Drehko – it's of course broken but I have a spare one from season 37/38 – they are virtually the same except they are actually in good contition. Brass belt from tuning mechanism is torn and zinc clutch was swollen, but otherwise mechanism is complete (belt tension screws are very important).
First thing I did was to draw a more or less exact „map” of underside of the chassis – radio was repaired many times in the past, so I couldn't trust some of the connections. Then I separated metal parts for galvanization and painting. As it was, additional chassis was in better condition than the original one.
I also made a list of components in accordance with service manual – I have all necessary resistors but a few of capacitors are missing, tube sockets are all checked and replaced when it was neccessary, polished switching axle and washed all the contact sets.
After a week I picked up parts from galvanization, meanwhile I painted chassis and its parts in silver very similar to original shade of paint. So it looks like parts straight from the factory.
And that is the state of radio now – in the coming days I should start putting it all together but I know it's a long way before radio would play again.
As it is of course there are problems. Especially that I still miss some parts which are:
amperometer
loudspeaker
knobs
original mains trafo.
I have similar transformer but I'm not sure if it's any good. I have loudspeaker but it's cone is cracked around the edges – those are the problems that maybe can be solved.
But if someone has knobs and amperometer (can be broken, I will repair it), that would be great...
Best regards
Piotr
PS: Feel free to write in German.
PS: Now I noticed that the post is in the wrong category - could moderator move in to "vor 1945"?
I'm sorry for writing in English, but it's still hard for me to write longer texts in German.
For a quite some time I was looking for a missing Saba from a season 35/36 – model 530 or 531 (I'm missing 336, but it's not so needed). I noticed those are really hard to find. Around a month ago I saw an auction with very bad 530WL starting from around 0.25 Euro. Finally I won that auction for 10 Euro – but radio was missing loudspeaker, knobs, transformer and tubes. But even so... I picked up radio from seller who gave me also two bad and partly dismantled chassis from 531WL and 335WL.
I decided on rebuilding the radio as best as I can (I have quite some part collection from Saba radios) – seems like pointless work but I have a soft spot for models from that season – apparently very few people like them.
First, two pictures from the auction:
9d0b4cfe4b7a92558b62d24dbe40.jpg (Größe: 203,56 KB / Downloads: 369)
9d97af184b6392e852db2086751b.jpg (Größe: 209,62 KB / Downloads: 366)
About Drehko – it's of course broken but I have a spare one from season 37/38 – they are virtually the same except they are actually in good contition. Brass belt from tuning mechanism is torn and zinc clutch was swollen, but otherwise mechanism is complete (belt tension screws are very important).
First thing I did was to draw a more or less exact „map” of underside of the chassis – radio was repaired many times in the past, so I couldn't trust some of the connections. Then I separated metal parts for galvanization and painting. As it was, additional chassis was in better condition than the original one.
I also made a list of components in accordance with service manual – I have all necessary resistors but a few of capacitors are missing, tube sockets are all checked and replaced when it was neccessary, polished switching axle and washed all the contact sets.
After a week I picked up parts from galvanization, meanwhile I painted chassis and its parts in silver very similar to original shade of paint. So it looks like parts straight from the factory.
And that is the state of radio now – in the coming days I should start putting it all together but I know it's a long way before radio would play again.
As it is of course there are problems. Especially that I still miss some parts which are:
amperometer
loudspeaker
knobs
original mains trafo.
I have similar transformer but I'm not sure if it's any good. I have loudspeaker but it's cone is cracked around the edges – those are the problems that maybe can be solved.
But if someone has knobs and amperometer (can be broken, I will repair it), that would be great...
Best regards
Piotr
PS: Feel free to write in German.
PS: Now I noticed that the post is in the wrong category - could moderator move in to "vor 1945"?