Ahh Jim ?, yes I guess it means that too many.? I use pre-octal [it doesn’t sound so demonstrative], but I am trying to confirm that

I was really sending what the AI experts know. Do you agree with them?

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Back to the 5-T, I would agree, about the tubes suggesting that it was designed perhaps before about ?may, june, july 1935 ?when the new octal tube data became known

the first ad I saw for the 5-T?? was in:

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BUT a bigger one was in: ???

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?still?? Marion???? Indiana

I just wonder they used all the new octal/metal sockets and tubes for the ?flagship Super sky-riders and left the older stuff for the sky buddy. That might make good business sense.

I worked in an industrial electronic plant for a while, so I wonder who bends and punches the steel chassis, front panel, and cabinet ? were machines easily available to do some bends?? Maybe it depends on just what is available? maybe they contract out the steel, maybe not

The month after this last ad, they changed the address to 2611 indiana so the first 5-Ts might be made at either place

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Wandering back to the early skyriders, and where they were actually made; nobody seems to have evidence of what happened to the SMI license from RCA when the they split up in Oct 1932. ???

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