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02-05-2011, 08:25 PM
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My First Crosley
This is my first Crosley- (Model #11-471BU) may not be a big deal to some, but as I have lived in Cincinnati all my life- 25 Radios and 17 TV's later I finally scored. I completely understand the frustration some threads have pointed out about the over-inflated prices of "antiques". You have no idea about how over-inflated Crosley items are in Powel "Whole Lotta Watts" Crosley's home town. Crosley had sold his empire after WW2- so this set is one of the AVCO-Bendix sets probably a RCA clone?
Anyway- I have the set, a owners manual and complete SAM'S for it. the missing items are the channel knobs, the speaker, 1-6T8 tube and the cover over the adjustments (v.hold, h.hold, contrast, etc.). A quick inspection shows nothing burnt or amiss. According to the notes on the SAM's the CRT was replaced in 1955 with a G.E. 12LP4-A. It will have to wait it's turn on my bench, (which will unfortunately might be a while)... This is my first post, hopefully the images uploaded! 
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02-05-2011, 08:57 PM
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I don't think those sets are clones of anything, they are fairly unique. I've never seen a control door intact one one, so they must have been even more fragile than the Admiral access doors. Hopefully you'll be able to locate a set of knobs. Unlike the door, those are usually still attached.
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02-07-2011, 09:22 AM
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I always thought that Crosley made some very interesting radios in the 40s and 50s. The TV looks cool as well! I went in a grocery store last week and saw a replica cathderal radio with a Crosley logo. I thoght that all of the old American names were now gone, but like most things I guess they are just 'virtually' gone. The radio was actually made by Crosley, but manufactured, of course, in China. I put it down.....
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02-07-2011, 10:16 AM
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I think that model has a Mallory Inductuner, so it has only one knob. It looks like the speaker has a field coil on it by the looks of the speaker socket. The only sets I seen with that chassis were 16" round and 16" & 17 rectangular. The newer Crosley's were nowhere near as good.
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02-08-2011, 07:41 PM
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My First Crosley
Everyone- thanks for the nice comments. From what I can tell with the notes on the manuals and the copyrights the set is from 1951.
As for the tuner one of my questions in the future was going to be -"What is a Continuous Tuner?" It is mentioned in the owners manual as a selling point and someone had written in the Sams folder that it is equiped with a "Continuous Tuner".
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#9
02-08-2011, 09:55 PM
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Continuous tuners are like a radio tuner where you tune through the entire band instead of ka-chunking your way through different channels. Continuous tuners usually have channels 2-6, then FM, then 7-13. DuMont and Andrea were the most common sets with continuous tuners.
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02-10-2011, 12:00 PM
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Quote:
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"Face piles of trials with smiles, for it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave, and keep on thinking free"
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#11
02-10-2011, 02:16 PM
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I'd say 1950-51 is pretty much spot-on.
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