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Fisher Electra IV estate sale find

WarrGo

WarrGo

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Friday my wife said hey lets hit some yard sales. We found an estate sale so in the garage I found a console opened it up and it was a Silvertone solid state. Darn So I went into the house and was looking around I saw another one. I saw some script writing on it. Three no The Fisher. It was hard to read it bent over and upside down. Opened it up it was in Near Mint. Not to mention that it had all of the paper work with it including how to put the legs on. The catalog that came with it is from 1961 so it's pretty close to that age.

My main question is does this have a selenium rectifier? If so will it have one in the tuner and one it the amp? The power tubes were not Fisher branded so they have been replaced. The power tubes are Sterling Electronics, I am assuming that they are rebadged from some one else. Anyone ever see there tubes before?

Since I am in the middle of an 800c restore can I bring this up using a variac and be OK? Also since this is a split unit how do I do that? Do I still pull the power tubes? and what about the tuner?

I have added some photos of the top and all the paper work that was with it. I didn't have room in my shop to get a good frontal shot but I think there are plenty of catalog and pics in the fisher console sticky.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43528248@N03/
 
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Excellent find! Looks like you got every possible piece of Fisher documentation that might conceivably have come with this console - including the '61 catalog and price list. It's cool how Fisher owners were frequently the type of people who would keep all this stuff together and hold on to it. Seems to me that they recognized its value.

You should have the 440-T/440-A chassis combo - very nice. That's a much more advanced and well thought out design than the 1960 Custom Electra III I picked up with the 610-ST/30-A chassis combo. I believe you are correct that it has solid state rectification. There was a thread on power supply issues involving these chassis here.

What cabinet style is that?
 
Cranked it up to 90 volts last night at 1AM and could see some glow. I was pumped.

BTW When I decided to start I using my variac decided to check it to see if it was true. It's 10 volts higher then what it shows.

I didn't check all the tubes before I started. I have an old tube tester that hasn't been used in 30 years or so. Should I bring the tester up slowly on my variac too? It's an old Knight tester
 
OK I got the power tubes in now and running 90 volts. It hums. but will pass music through the aux input. couldn't get anything but static from the am or fm. Haven't tried the phono.

Should I stop and try to recap it? or go ahead and run it up to 117 volts?

Does anyone have a schematic?
 
WarrGo said:
OK I got the power tubes in now and running 90 volts. It hums. but will pass music through the aux input. couldn't get anything but static from the am or fm. Haven't tried the phono.

Should I stop and try to recap it? or go ahead and run it up to 117 volts?

Does anyone have a schematic?
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Recap!!! Hum is a indication the filters are getting ready to go POOF. Why risk an output tube or tranny for a few dollars in caps. I only run systems on original caps if there is no hum but I watch them closer then a 2 year old.
 
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