Mystery German set - any ideas please?

[Yorkie]

Wow, thanks for your helpful reponses guys!

Maitiu has e-mailed me a pic of a Telefunken Concertino, and the dial looks identical.

As to plugging it in Steve - no, I'm too young to die, and too old for nasty shocks! I think it would function as an electric fire rather than a radio. Sadly, the weather up on the Moors for who knows how long has taken its toll on the chassis. I'm sure that the chassis will have been imported and installed in a UK made cabinet that didn't do it justice as it was very inferior in both design and construction. Such a pity that it came to this sad end, but then had it gone to the tip, no doubt the whole caboodle would have been crushed, so at least I got the valves.

I hadn't heard of the Swiss database Maitiu.

[Andrewausfa]

I believe Maitiu means Radio Museum.org which is based in Switzerland. Just out of interest which model was it? I had a look at some Telefunken radios (didn't they make a lot!) and couldn't see it.

Andrew

[Yorkie]

I believe Maitiu means Radio Museum.org which is based in Switzerland. Just out of interest which model was it? I had a look at some Telefunken radios (didn't they make a lot!) and couldn't see it.

Andrew

As to the model Andrew, on the pic that Maitiu e-mailed me the badge on the front on the speaker fabric says 'Concertino'. There are no identifying marks on the dial or the chassis, and as it was in a gram, there's no cabinet to compare as there would be for a whole radio.

I'm a member of RMORG, so I'll have to visit the site to see if there's a circuit for such a model.

[Tedzed1]

Hi David, found this, may be similar to what you are looking for.
Telefunken Concertino 2194.

[standunmj]

hi guys , ive posted pictures of the concertino on pm to david, and pics of the chasis, if anyone wants to see them im sure dave will oblige , unfortunatly my file is on picasa system and im unable to post them onto forum , regards maitiu.

[Yorkie]

I've taken a few more pics to show some of the features. It has small IFTs, nine valves including the EM84 magic eye, EZ81 rectifier and a pair of EL84s. The ferrite rod aerial was mounted on a pillar which looks like it should rotate, but is actually fixed. There's a pic of the rear apron, and of the dial light illumination arrangements, which consisted of three tubular 'festoon' bulbs rather like the interior light bulbs in cars. They're on a poor quality cardboard mount.

Identification of the chassis isn't helped due to it not having a cabinet of course.

I suspect that it's going to remain in the greehouse, where it's taken root!

[Bushbaby]

I do think that this is still an East German set!

Regards

Rob

[Hammonds]

Hi Yorkie

Are you still looking for the identity of this set?

If so, I may be able to help. I've seen a Philips BD583a and if you look at http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_philips_1002.html , it looks remarkably similar even with the rotatable ferrite aerial, except that there are no PCBs but a few tags - maybe a gramophone fix.

Best regards Dave

[Yorkie]

Hi Yorkie

Are you still looking for the identity of this set?

Best regards Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks for reading my post, and for the helpful link.

In answer to your question, no - I ended up stripping the chassis for spares - basically, the two EL84 output transformers and the mains transformer.

(There wasn't much else worth saving).

[AlanBeckett]

This must be 'Resurrection Day'
I must look at my ancient Threads and see what I can revive.

At least you got some useful spares David. I'm afraid I'm generally too sentimental. I've even got an old Villiers Engine which I bought specifically for Spares for another Engine then found that it ran. I've still got it and I got the necessary Spares elsewhere.

Alan