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My new console

achilles_bog

achilles_bog

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I bit the bullet and bought this console, its a Fisher Futura. Everything worked on it and it was in great shape. This is my first tubed equipment and when I heard it I had to have it, plus I can digitize my 78s now. :tears:

I guess that actual work begins, cleaning all the dust from the tubes.

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Sweet, congrats! :thmbsp: That looks a HECK of a lot like the one my grandparents had, when I was a little kid. :smoke:
 
Futura V (1964)
(Model F-59)

Chassis: 690-T, 690-A

TT: Garrard A

17 Tubes, 8 Transistors/75 Watts

Price: $895 (French Provincial/Antique Ivory)
$845 (French Provincial/Italian Provincial/Traditional)
$795 (Modern)
Weight is about 150 or so.

Sweet looking console. Take care of those PIO caps, and it'll run for a very long time.
Your's is the French Provincial in Fruitwood (F-59-P) Or Mahoghany (F-59-PM).


Larry
 
Axcel said:
very very nice how much does it weigh???
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It weighs about as much as a washing machine.

It is pretty nice and it was dirt cheap compared to some of the ratty looking consoles and radios I looked at that day. The top does have some deposits on it which I couldn't see in the store because of the lighting and my eyes, but most of them came off, though I might have to take some really fine wet/dry sand paper to it to get them all. Other than being another anonymous piece of furniture at the store, it looked like it was loved. The poor thing is soaking up conditioning oil like crazy, I bet its happy to have a real home again and be out of the antique shop. :)

It has two downsides, I'm going to be fielding a lot of noise complaints with this thing and my cat has already attempted to find out the answer to the question "what is in the big gaping hole in the back?"

Thanks for the info Larry, I'd be tempted to say mahogany, but I really don't know what fruitwood looks like and it doesn't list the p or pm on the model number.
 
That is beautiful! I'd say that it's fruitwood as that finish looks identical to my '63 which is French Provincial in fruitwood.

achilles_bog said:
... I guess that actual work begins, cleaning all the dust from the tubes.
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You'll want to exercise extreme caution when cleaning those tubes. Fisher often used Telefunkens with their own name printed on them and the printing is removed very easily.

Dave
 

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achilles bog. there should(may or may not be) a paper placard stapled to the back side of it. Lists the tube layout, and such. It may have the exact model # rubber stamped into it.

Fruitwood is lighter than mahoghany. From your pictures I'd say it's more likely fruitwood, unless you cranked up the light levels on your exposure.

Larry
 
wow that is one very nice console, congrates..

i find the turn table interesting, i do not think i have ever seen the dark "type a" changer with the white tonearm. it actually lloks quite nice like that.
 
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achilles_bog said:
I guess that actual work begins, cleaning all the dust from the tubes.
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Beautiful console! Be careful with the tubes, post-1960(ish) Fisher used a lot of relabeled Euro tubes - my 800B has Fisher tubes from Telefunken, Amperex and Mullard. Before that they seemed to like GE and Sylvania. I wouldn't do anything more than gently rubbing them with a used dryer sheet.
 
mashaffer said:
Do the dryer sheets have to be used?

mike
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Used, especially if they've been through a few passes in the dryer, will just be the bare sheet of whatever that backing material is. Unused will have a bunch of extra material on it that makes it a dryer sheet. I keep them when they come out of the laundry and put a few with my tube collection.
 
Sam Cogley said:
Beautiful console! Be careful with the tubes, post-1960(ish) Fisher used a lot of relabeled Euro tubes - my 800B has Fisher tubes from Telefunken, Amperex and Mullard. Before that they seemed to like GE and Sylvania. I wouldn't do anything more than gently rubbing them with a used dryer sheet.
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Thanks for the warning and the tip. I've never dealt with tubes before, but I assume I would remove them one by one and clean them?


I'll concede to it being fruitwood, it looks dark in my apartment since the lighting is so horrible, but once its daylight and sun comes through a window it lightens up quite a bit.
 
achilles_bog said:
Thanks for the warning and the tip. I've never dealt with tubes before, but I assume I would remove them one by one and clean them?
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That's the easiest way to keep them straight, though any sane, factory-built piece of equipment is labeled by each tube socket or has a tube placement chart nearby. In a console you'll usually see both. When it comes to the lettering, gently rub the dryer sheet on the edge of it first to see what happens. Some can be cleaned with little to no damage, some you just have to leave dirty or lose the markings.
 
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