Old radio component?
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Old radio component?
Shame to throw such an old item, anyone want it ? I’m not even sure what it is.
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Re: Old radio component?
Flux Capacitor...
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- Bill_qaz
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Re: Old radio component?
It tells you on the box it's a dual without a switch but what you do with it now that's a mystery
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Re: Old radio component?
It probably is a capacitor of some sort, possibly twin ganged, variable, for use in a valve set.
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Re: Old radio component?
I don't believe it's a variable Capacitor, Flux or otherwise, as a capacitor is basically 2 plates as typified by the circuit symbol looking a bit like this -||-. (as opposed to a battery symbol where the vertical lines are 2 different sizes
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This looks more like it has Wire Coils, so perhaps a Tuning Coil as used on a 1930s -50s Ham Radio ??
See this listing on ebay for a 'Vintage MULTI RADIO COIL '
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144148937886
But that's about my limit of Radio knowledge.
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This looks more like it has Wire Coils, so perhaps a Tuning Coil as used on a 1930s -50s Ham Radio ??
See this listing on ebay for a 'Vintage MULTI RADIO COIL '
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144148937886
But that's about my limit of Radio knowledge.
Basil the 1955 series II
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Re: Old radio component?
Yes, I think you're right. I didn't look at the photo close up, but now I have they are clearly coils wound around the outside. It's a tuning coil.