Repro Vintage Radio Battery catalog post?

[charbee]

A few months back, someone posted pages from a catalog they were assembling of their reproduction battery packs for vintage portable radios. I've lost the pics, and the post is gone, but I'd like to find their website.

Just won one of the tube radios of my childhood on eBay (an Airline shortwave portable, their answer to Zenith's Trans-Oceanic) and I know I'll eventually want to get a repro battery pack for it. Liked the look of the ones the poster was making the catalog pages for, so if anyone still has the link, or knows/remembers the website, I'd be much appreciative.

 

[Unimatic1140]

I found it and unlocked it for you Charbee...

http://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/THREADS/SANDBOX/2009/23474.htm?21

 

[charbee]

Many, many thanks Robert! Saved the thread and pics...I'll get in touch with him when the radio arrives. This is going to be a fun little project. We had one of these Airline shortwaves when I was a lad in the early '60s, along with a huge old Zenith console from 1940. Neither of them made it out of the 70s alive, but I've been searching for years for one of each in good condition to complete my own personal little radio "time warp"...one down, one to go!

Thanks again!

Here's a pic of the Airline:

 

[charbee]

And here's a pic of the Zenith...

This magnificent beast was the Zenith 8-S-463, produced in the fall of 1939 for the 1940 "model year" (amazing that they used to roll out the new models of radios with as much fanfare as the new models of cars!)

I'm still searching for one of these babies...imagine hearing every piece of important music from the 60s-70s for the first time on something like this...the hugely booming tube sound was so very much more REAL than the tinny transistor garbage that was all the rage at the time!

I know that AM radio is now pretty much garbage, that's not the point...I found I can get a small (legal!) AM transmitter, and broadcast whatever I want to hear. Also, the Zenith console has a "TV" input, which (if you're handy with an ohm-meter and soldering iron) will accommodate a ceramic-cartridge turntable...as a teen I used to play my Zep albums on the one we had!