@th the thing on the left looks like a variable capacitor
@transmundane it sort of does, although there is no rotating component. The radio's variable tuning cap is on the other side of the board.
@th Hm, yes. The coils(?) inside are a bit weird too... what sort of device is this?
@transmundane Philips 122ABC super hetrodyne medium wave receiver from the early 1940s that was abandoned by its former owner on the street.
@transmundane As I admired the frequency display and tried to decide if I needed to take home another feral medium-wave vacuum-tube radio project, the former owner shouted from her window "het werkt niet maar staat wel mooi op jouw boekenplank!"
@th i'd have a hard time passing it up :)
@th looking at circuit diagrams they are filled with obscure unlabeled things but this may be a bit helpful https://elektrotanya.com/PREVIEWS/63463243/23432455/oldies/philips/philips_122abc_ac-dc_and_battery_portable_receiver_1946_sm.pdf_2.png
@th Great design of the tuning indicator. And in general quite a unique design by of-the-day Philips.
@th The two things on the top are variable caps. Might have spare parts if needed.
@th Left could be a selenium rectifier. The right ones look like capacitors, though I haven’t seen ones built like this in quite as large.
@fruchti based on the schematic @transmundane linked to, it probably is a rectifier to turn the AC power input into DC. The X label and `>>` symbol are very different from modern ones.
@th @transmundane Neat! That symbol is new to me as well.
as for the red thingys, they could be tubular ceramic caps ? https://www.antiqu...
@th My dad says the pink things are ceramic capacitors; the metal thing he thinks might be a selenium or copper oxide rectifier stack.
@th the black things with the tapered ends are axial capacitors: I know someone (in NL too) who restored a similar vintage radio and found the old parts quite special
@scruss that was my guess based on the labels, and I think what "P3" and " P4" means they are polarized with insulating sleeves.
@scruss thanks for that link! I zal daar vragen als iedereen wilt de radio want eigenlijk heb ik geen tijd om het te hacken....
@th someone will. They're very proud of their local brand.
@th The metal stacks on the left is a rectifier, have seen many of those in radio's. Red/pink items are capacitors. Black also.
@th the fins-and-coil looks very much like my memory vision of an am radio kit I built when I was a child in the early 1970s, if that helps any lol