mike stehr Posted September 29, 2002 Share Posted September 29, 2002 Ten bucks. Montgomery Wards 'Airline' Single-ended 6BQ5 AM/FM receiver phono console. The most homely console I had ever seen, see ya! The all-in one(except phono)unit itself works great, it came with 12' inch woofers. (It's doing the local college jazz station real well.) It came with the original tubes, which are 'WG&Co.' branded, made in the USA.(What brand would these be?) The 6BQ5 output tubes have black plates, as with most of the others except the 7025 driver tubes, which are more grey. (They were pretty much totally dead on my tester, and one had chunks of getter flash that had come off of the glass and was loose inside.) Now the 7025 would be a low noise version of a 12AX7? They spec out the same, and I swapped the 7025's out for 12AX7's.(It works just fine, no fires.) I had some other tubes to replace some other weak tubes in the unit, scavenged from another tube receiver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted September 29, 2002 Author Share Posted September 29, 2002 Oops! Double post! Read the one above! Can't edit! Hate life! Piss on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile homeless Posted September 29, 2002 Share Posted September 29, 2002 You should be able to edit it, but only once, even if responded to. Nice Monkey Bone, Mikey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted September 30, 2002 Author Share Posted September 30, 2002 Monkey bone! Yep, that will be this receiver's name! I think I figured out how to edit, but now I need to figure out how to get images in the main text box, not as a attached file located at the bottom. Developmentally disabled PC user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 WG & co. stands for Wells - Gardner which made private branded radios for Montgomery Ward and others. I Ran a search on Google for Montgomery Ward airline and turned up that tidbit. There is a ton of info available. Could you post the model number ? There is likely a pic available somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted September 30, 2002 Author Share Posted September 30, 2002 Model # WG-2694A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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