Central Texas here

[stbasil]

Hi everyone,

I have enjoyed lurking this forum lately, but I thought I would sign up to get some information from you guys about a possible restoration of a Magnavox stereo. I'll do a separate post about that in another section.

Some background on my recent projects:
A while back, I brought a 1948 Olympic 78 console back to life to play records that I inherited from my parents. It required quite a bit of work, recapping, speaker replacement, turntable refurbishment and cartridge replacement along with tracking force mods.

I've also fixed up a 1959 Zenith TransOceanic 1000 that belonged to my father-in-law, which was filthy, having been used as a kitchen radio for many years!

So, I'll post some questions regarding the Maggie console on the other thread.

[TC Chris]

Nice radios! My Dad was so proud of his Transoceanic 1000. I figured my brother should have that one since I had found a good one online, and also a couple more recent models and a couple tube ones.

Do you have a model no. for the Olympic? It's always fun to examine a schematic diagram for devices like that.

What did you do for a cartridge on it, and for tracking force improvement?

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Welcome to our forum! Thanks for lurking and thanks for joining us. We hope you will enjoy the forum......

[William]

Welcome, it is always good to see someone enthusiastic about our hobby. Please share all that you have, and we will do our best to give you a helping hand.

Bill

[stbasil]

]Chris,
The Olympic is a model 7-925. Here is a link where I posted some information about the cartridge swap to answer another post on the antiqueradios.com forum:
https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewto ... 6#p3354266
Thanks for your interest!
Bill Long

[Hi-Fi-Mogul]

Welcome, and that is a sweet looking Olympic there.

[TC Chris]

Interesting to look at the Rider's schematic online. It contains the assertion that it sues a "low-pressure" crystal cartridge and a permanent stylus good for 4,000 plays. At 3 min./side, that's about 200 hours of grinding away on shellac-bound filler. I like the way the schematic shows the AM and FM circuits separately for clarity.

Chris Campbell

[chazglenn3]

Welcome!

[Motorola minion]

Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing a restored horizontal radio-phonograph story.

So many different manufacturers made those and I save them wherever possible. I saved about 15 myself, but restore them only on request.