(20-10-2022, 03:31 PM)PerdioPal Wrote: Does it work, that is what all valves should do! Fascinating item, well over 100 years old. If it were mine I would make a "one valve regen" out of it for fun.
For starters the heater(s) look intact but the wire connections are not visible but may be exposed inside the cloth braid. One braid is missing and a wire end is definitely ok to connect to. I'd like to make a one valve regen set - it would remind me of the one I had as a boy for a bedside radio. (it may have had a seperate audio amp ECL80 or something) The RF valve was probably an EF80 or similar. I do remember it having tuning and reaction condensers, one of the caps was one of those poor brown solid dielectric types available with a pocket money budget, I think the main tuner was salvaged from some other radio.
An early application here:
https://antiqueradios.com/forums//viewtopic.php?f=11&t=330484&view=next
