Capehart
THE WORLD'S FINEST INSTRUMENT FOR MUSICAL REPRODUCTION
The famous Capehart 500, better known to collectors on the east coast as "The Gypsy Funeral Cart". This poor Capehart was being shipped to it's new home when a lady on a cell phone cut in front of the truck driver and, to avoid her, he rolled the truck. A couple of the mirror panels came off and two chassis broke loose but the story has a happy ending. I restored all the electrical components with the help of a very good friend, Norm Braithwaite, well known to EH Scott collectors. Capehart did not publish all the schematics for the 500 so I had to work in the dark. I hope to be able to publish the new schematics here at a later date. In addition to the usual phonograph repairs, several pieces of the mechanism had to be re-cast and now it cycles very smoothly. The mirrors are being restored by a company in Baltimore. The scenes were reverse painted on peach colored glass then silvered. When the mirrors are finished, I will post the completed pictures.
In 1936, Homer Capehart decided to give E H Scott a little competition with the model 61-E radio. This is the only model Capehart made without a phonograph and it was only produced for one year. It has two 400-E amps and a 400-E all-wave tuner chassis. A really nice sound but a bit too expensive in the middle of the depression.
