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Hi everybody.
It has been a while since I visited this site and forum, and I'm glad to see that it is always very active!
I had the chance to buy an old Jet 505 K recently, whose major problem is that the dial is allmost unreadable. This is common, from what I've been told, on those models, but I don't know how to handle that issue wothout your help.
I've found a couple of pictures, but those are low def ones, and the angle doesn't let me read all the stations that used to fill the scale, neither do they let me see every detail of it.
Would somebody here have one of those beautiful radios, and be able to send a high def picture of the dial to me?
B&O headquarters did not even reply to my request so far, and Struer museum does not have any detailed info regarding the 505K.
Hope somebody will read this message in a bottle,
Stay safe and thank you,
Laurent from the French Alps.
Probably difficult, and I'm sure that B&O can't help, but let's first find out which version dial it has;
Leftmost vertical row has 14 stations with Freiburg at the bottom?OrLeftmost vertical row has only four stations with Wien II at the bottom?
Martin
Good evening, Martin,
Thank you for your quick reply.
I'm travelling at the moment, I only have pictures on my computer. Leftmost vertical has 4 stations, the bottom one has W as 1st letter, I assume it is Wien. MF 50-015 is printed in the lowerleft corner of the glass plate.
I also assume that 2 different dials mean 2 different series, does that give an information regarding the year of production? Documentation is very difficult to find, as you surely know!
Best,
Laurent.
It was one-year only, as most of the sets were back then.It would be fair to assume that all of the 505-series was produced from late 1949 till mid-1950.Late 1950 saw the production start of the next years model (the 506-series).There were dozens of radio manufacturers in Denmark at the time, competition was tough at times,and having new models available in time for Christmas was found to be a good idea.Dials were occasionally upgraded to reflect the ever changing assortment of broadcast stations.New (updated) dials were most likely available from the dealers, and I wouldn't be surprised if dialswere replaced if the set was brought in for service as well.Certainly if broken.Sounds like you have the most common dial, presumably the factory original.Most of these glasses will be more or less unreadable by now, and I know that work is currentlyundergoing to the effect of reproducing this dial glass.I would wait a little.
Thank you for all those informations, Martin.
I must say I'm an absolute rooky regarding old radios, and did not know that models were renewed at that pace. This explaining B&O and competitors not taking very much care of technical documentation for the future generations of collectors....
I'm in touch with Rudy from Belgium, who might find a readable dial.
I will let you know!
BR,