Motorola portable tube radio 1947 model 5A7A
Motorola 1947 portable radio found at the thirft store for 4.98. It payed when I purchased it, and I replaced the line cord. . This radio has a galvenized metal case and a bakelite front lid that houses the loopstick antenna. The radio shuts off when the lid is closed. It has a weatherproof speaker.
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This is heavenly …
This is heavenly sweet….
Beautiful bakelite…. warm tubelights..
You’re alright Bill
5 stars
No it doesn’t have …
No it doesn’t have a black face it is just the way the light was hitting it. It is aluminum the same as yours. I don’t have any batteries for it, I just operate it on AC.
Duh— guess I …
Duh— guess I should have watched the whole vid.
Obviously plugged in.
Your radio has a black face with red.
Mine has an aliminum background.
Who’se is right ?
Cool I just …
Cool I just snagged one of these myself
Rough, but all the tubes are ok.
What did you use for batteries or was it “plugged in?
Also I wanna re-cap the thing.
Fragile thing. Want to take it apart
without damage !
GREAT RED COLOR !
Is that original ?
GREAT VID !!
Wow nice find very …
Wow nice find very cool!
Very awesome radio …
Very awesome radio and sounds great too!
very cool radio …
very cool radio nice and clean too
never know what you will find at a thirft
store.
dat be kewl!
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dat be kewl!
Backthen, that was state of the art and considered very small.