That EMM803 is certainly a strange one. When I was a kid in the seventies, most people were tipping out 15 to 20-year-old equipment for jumble sales or whoever would take them. I had lots of older equipment donated for my hobby, including several of the Grundig TK series tape-recorders, and a very heavy old Telefunken deck. The Grundigs all used the EM84 as I recall, but the Telefunken was the round type.

I still have an old resistance-capacitance bridge with an octal-based magic eye as the balance indicator (can't remember the number off-hand).

I don't recall ever coming across a domestic radio with the ECLL801. Most sets at the cheaper end used a single-ended class A output stage, and the more upmarket push-pull types generally used something like a pair of EL84 tubes, or the P or U-series equivalent for series-connected heater chains.

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And now, somebody's given me an old 1950s Bush set,

Do you have a service sheet for it? If not, what's the model number? I may have a PDF of one of the old Electrical & Radio Trader service sheets for it.



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 06-02-2005).]