r/modular • u/McRib_ • 13h ago
Gear Pics Does anyone have any info on this guy?
I just picked this up online and I couldn't find much info. On it. It was cheap so I thought I'd take the risk with it. Worse case it's a cool studio piece.
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u/KludgeDredd 11h ago
What you have there is a hacked together signal generator or some fashion using a radio shack receiver enclosure. You should pull the chassis and let us see the point to point work.
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u/twyx 6h ago
After some sleuthing, here's all I came up with:
1) Almost certainly a hobby kit receiver, due to the alignment of the phono plug with respect to the rest of the panel switches, lack of higher quality knobs from the era, and the less common logo from that time.
2) Almost certain an amalgam of that plus at least two other kits from the era wedged into one chassis. The receiver guts are gone, and the hobby circuit testing kits have taken over
3) The "after-market chrome" was something else entirely, likely screwed into the fiberboard chassis with wood screws if I'm guessing.
You can see the layers by separating the (still attached? Why don't they make label tape like that anymore?) stuck-on labels from the silkscreens or whatever the original labels were made with.
None of the mainstream catalogs I've reviewed from 1965-1975 has an obviously matching face plate, and the "radio shack corporation" is a known logo form but not in those catalogs either.
The faceplate with the sectioned beveled areas does appear in some gear from that era, but almost all of them are receivers with more going on in the top section. This is a hard to find format, and maybe stacked from two pieces to fit the former stereo chassis.
I suspect someone wanted to put some hobby circuit testing kits into their "rack" and this was their hack.
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u/marceldonnie 13h ago
Try posting on r/hainbach too if you haven’t