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In Reply to: RE: What Does $50 Buy? posted by geezerrocket on October 08, 2014 at 10:39:57
I paid $50 for my first 500c......in 1997.....
And you have a rare first series 500c.....large dial version. Look at various pictures and you will understand. Your receiver should have the famed golden cascade FM section rather than the later and more common nuvister version.
Enjoy !
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I am away from home on business at this time so I can't say with any certainty which version I have.I do believe it has nuvistor(s) though. It has a gold colored sticker that says "golden syncrode", and the serial number is 43XXXJ. I included a pic of the sticker that you may be able to blow up.
For now I plan to replace r121 thru r124 with 200k resistors, change the coupling caps from .047uf to .1uf Russian PIO's, put a new on/off rocker switch on the side of the chassis, replace a few of the non essential Telefunken 12AX7 tubes with cheaper tubes, and source a matched quad of the new Tung Sol 7591's from Jim McShane when they become available.
I plan to roll the Telefunken's in my Sherwood S-5000 when I get it back from Mike Samra just to see if I can take it up another notch.
I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes, until the main course.......Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
Edits: 10/13/14
Look at the array of pictures in google image for the 500c and the visual difference will be apparent.
Golden Cascode is the name Fisher used for their FM section.
Nuvisters look like very small thimbles- much much smaller than tubes. Did you pull any 6dj8 or 6922 tubes out- these would have been used in the FM section.
Best. Ross
Nuvistors.
See pic above.
I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes, until the main course.......Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
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