console identification?

[totem]

This is not my usual prey, but found a tubed console that
has the chassis #RCS642. Perhaps early 60,s or so.

Its a house branded unit, with Jensen drivers, metal horn, 5" mid
and maybe a 12" woofer.

[electroking]

This is not my usual prey, but found a tubed console that
has the chassis #RCS642. Perhaps early 60,s or so.

Its a house branded unit, with Jensen drivers, metal horn, 5" mid
and maybe a 12" woofer.

What's the name of the house (since you say it's a house branded unit)?

For instance if it's Viking by Eaton's, it was almost certainly built
by Electrohome.

What is it that you don't know and want to know about this console?

From the description you give, I assume it is mono, right?

Regards.

[Tube Radio]

Keep it for the Jensen drivers.

[totem]

The house brand was in fact a Viking/Electrohome, good guess electroking!

What I was interested in finding out,were some spec,s regarding
the amp.
It is a stereo unit with aux speaker switching and an extra input also.

Suspect during the early 60,s the tubes were sourced across the pond.

[totem]

I had a chance to go back to the rather large, 6 ft or so beast today.
With no time to spare since another guy was on his second visit to look it over also.
I ended up with this Viking, a early Dual 1009 TT along with 2 12 inch,
2 6 inch and 2 small horn drivers, all Jensens.

Since electroking seems to be the Viking guy,
this is the model # ---RCS 642 M {beginning was not readable}

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/totem02/IMG_0470.jpg



http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z196/totem02/IMG_0468.jpg

[Tube Radio]

Is that four 6BQ5 in P-P stereo I see :scratch2:? Good luck on the restoration :thmbsp:. Some house brand consoles can be real gems. This appears to be one of them.

[electroking]

Hello,

Thanks for posting the pictures. I wil have to pass this one.
A few comments however: this appears to have push-pull outputs,
putting it a notch above other Viking or Electrohome stereo consoles
that only had single-ended outputs ('OK guys, get me a stereo with
no more tubes than a mono' must have been heard many times
in design offices in the late fifties/early sixties). It appears to have
a factory-added FM-stereo decoder (the 3 tubes with a reddish coil in
the upper left). The ouput tubes could be 6BQ5s as someone else
stated, but they look more like 7-pin 6AQ5s to me.

Although this chassis has rather small output transformers, it
would be a shame to just pull the tubes and junk the rest. Hope
someone picks it up. Regards.

[totem]

I think it was a TOTL for a house brand all the way through.
The TT was a good Dual 1009 and speakers were decent for the time period.
By the way the outputs are 6GW8s.
The name Viking being the seller is marked on the tubes, with GT Britain
on the bottom of some. Others RCA,s

[drknstrmyknight]

Interesting tube, combination triode pentode - phase-splitter and output in one bottle.