Its a 1955 Selmer TV15...
In incredible condition considering its age..
One owner from new and.......
ALL the original paperwork!
They even included a circuit diagram of your new amp back then!
"Feedback is the greatest bane of any PA man's existence" !!!
Brilliant stuff!
Its has to go to a tech as its wired for dc/ac and has a three pin plug kind of "inserted" into it..
I havent plugged i tin and i Wont until its back form the doctors...
Ive spoken to ICBM about the electrical side of it....
Very cool overall though..
Original valves still in it... K33's...
Pretty chuffed
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I have two of those Goodmans speakers. Unfortunately son put a Strat headstock thru one of the cones but it is just torn and can be repaired when I can be arsed to get the cab out of the junk and stripped.
We found them to have a distinctly "twonky" sound compared to a V30, have you heard one lately IC?
And, oh yes! AC/DC kit, only thing MORE dangerous was the Line Cord radio! Shock AND fire hazard.
Dave.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
A museum piece to be sure, I love it.
I bet that could tell some stories.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
" So if you shortened or replaced the cable, the radio then blew up... "
Bit worse then that! People used to shorten the cable and it would then overheat and ignite the carpet! Line cord had almost gone by the time I went into the trade (53yrs ago!) but iirc there was a (black then) neutral and wound around that was a heatproof insulator which, now I think about it, was almost certainly spun asbestos! Around that was a slow wind of resistance wire for the live.
AC/DC radios died out fairly quickly but then TV came in and it was far too costly to fit mains traffs! So, if you got it wrong with the earlier sets the chassis was at 240V . Later on, with sstate rectifiers you did not even have the 50-50 chance since the chassis was either live or at half live!
It took decades and the coming of video and the Scart connector to eventually force isolated chassis onto the market.
Dave.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Nice.