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ON

ANTIQUE

88

By

Marc

Ellis

RADIO

Restoring

A

Zenith

Shutter -Dial

Set

JUDGING

FROM THE VOLUME

OF

reader

mail

received,

the columns

deal-

ing

with

the Echophone

ECl restoration

project (concluded

in

the November,

1987

issue of Hands -On

Electronics)

were

among the

most popular,

to date,

in the Ellis

On Antique

Radio series.

So,

never being

shy

about capitalizing

on a good

idea, I'm

going to

kick off a

new

restoration

project

this month.

But first,

a

word

to

all the people who

wrote

me in response

to

the two col-

umns

on the

Crosley 50 (January

and

February

1988):

Even though I

devoted

the

last two columns

to

catching up on

the mail backlog,

I

wasn't

able to get

to

the

Crosley letters.

Be patient,

though!

I'm

saving your very

interesting

stories,

questions,

and comments

for

a column

that will

appear in

the near future.

Zenith's

Tricky

3 -Band Dial

Some years

ago,

I happened

to be

driving through

a rural area

of Missouri

on business.

Passing

a likely

looking

antique

store

and having

a

little

time

to

spare,

I stopped

to check

the old -radio

scene.

The

young lady who waited

on

me showed

me a Zenith

BC /SW

con-

sole with

a

very

interesting

looking

round,

black dial. It

had been

for sale,

she said.

But,

now that

she and

her

husband

had

made an

accidental

discov-

ery about

the

dial mechanism,

they

were

going

to keep

the set.

In

response

to my raised

eyebrows,

the girl

reached

out and

turned the

bandswitch.

As

she did so,

I

was

amazed

to see the

dial calibrations

change

almost instantly

from broadcast

band,

through two

different shortwave

bands,

and back to

broadcast band

again.

I couldn't

figure

out what was

happening

until I tried

the operation

myself.

Rotating

the bandswitch

a little

more slowly,

I

watched

a pair of semi-

circular

dial segments

carrying

one set

of

calibrations

flip out of

the

way,

to be

replaced immediately

by a pair carrying

another

set.

The

Zenith 7S232

as

received

from the

dealer. The

set

is 16- inches

wide, and

almost two feet high; the

charred area

around the

speaker is a result

of a

furnace

explosion.

I left

the

shop with

mixed

feelings.

While

I was

really

taken with

the

beau-

tiful

and ingenious

dial

mechanism,

I

was

almost

happy that

the radio wasn't

for sale.

Even

though

our

home isn't

exactly small,

we

don't have

a whole

lot

of space

available

for

console

storage.

Bad

Luck/Good

Luck!

A few

months

later, I happened

to be

visiting

an antique

-radio dealer

of

my

acquaintance

-an

old gentlemen

who

bought

and sold

the sets

as a

retirement

hobby.

I described

the dial

of the

Zenith

console

and asked

if he

had

ever come

across

one. "Oh

yes,"

he said,

"that's

called

a shutter

dial,

and Zenith

made

quite a

few models

using

them."

"Were they

all consoles ?"

I asked.

In reply,

he

led me

over to

a Zenith

table model

the size

of a small

juke box.

It was

easily

the tallest

non -console

ra-

dio I had

ever seen.

And,

though the

mechanism

was

jammed,

it obviously

had a shutter

dial just

like

the one I'd

seen in

the antique

store.

"How

much ?"

I immediately

queried.

But

it

wasn't

forsale

because

the

dealer want-

ed to work

on

it himself!

Disappointed,

I

began

to

wonder

if

I'd ever

come

across

a shutter

-dial

set with

an

owner

who'd

be

willing

to part with

it.

A few weeks

later,

though,

I received

a phone

call

from the

dealer.

It seemed

that,

not long

after

my

visit,

something

had gone wrong

with

the gas furnace

at

his home.

The result was

a small,

but

violent,

explosion

that

damaged

several

of

his old sets.

The

table -model

shutter

-

dial radio

I'd

admired was

among

them

-but was

still

restorable.

He was

moving

to a new location

and

wanted

to

reduce

his stock.

If

I

was

still

interested,

he'd give

me

a good deal

on the

radio.

Needless

to say,

I lost no

time in

getting

out there

to pick

up my

new

acquisition.

Human

nature

being what

it

is, I

didn't

do much with

the set

after getting

it safely

under

my wing.

There

were

too

many

problems

to be solved,

and the

time

never seemed

right

to begin

on

them.

But

the radio's

many problems

and high

interest value

should

make

it

an

ideal

restoration

project

for this

col-

umn.

So let's get

started!

Introducing

the

Model 7S232

Though

the

photos

don't suggest

it,

the Zenith

Model

7S232

has

to be one

of

the

largest

table -model

sets

ever made.

The

cabinet

is

about 16-

inches wide,

and

stands

almost

two -feet

high.

Its

Here's

the

shutter -dial

assembly

that

makes the

radio

so

interesting.

You

may

be able

to

see

the

edges

of the jammed

shutters in

the recessed

inner

circle.

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