Running up a Blue Peter.

[boater sam]

Pilots are mostly based on US designs, hence the valve line-up. A company in Dublin assembled them under licence for a while.

I might have a Pilot Poppet: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pilot_poppet_bm109.html

I have a vague memory of restoring an Irish made one, so I had a search on the Pilot folder:

So Brownlee was the Dublin company.

It's not exactly like any UK model, but looking here, I wrote that it's most like the Blue Peter!
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pilot_mari..._iimk.html
But valves are:  6: 12AH8 6BA6 6AT6 6BW6 6U5G 6X4
The 6BW6 is actually similar to the 6V6.
The 6U5G is a magic eye.
UK Blue Peter: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pilot_blue_peter.html

The UK Pilot Mariner is completely different.

I ALWAYS check or replace paper dielectric caps with more than 12V in circuit before power on.

After 1954 (due to FM in UK and not in Ireland till 1961/1962) the UK & Irish models, either imported or locally assembled (Pye, Murphy, Bush etc) diverged a lot. Sometimes the Irish models were like UK export ones, but with LW replacing (a) SW.

Usually there is no service info.

Is the Irish model much different on chassis to your Blue Peter? Obviously it's got the later valves and a ferrite rod aerial.


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I forget who I restored it for! As it's not a business, I guess I only took photos!

I may have used Pilot 85 series schematic as a help; Trader 1126 and R&TVS Pilot Model T854 and T85M

The cabinet is similar but much darker, steel work is similar to many Pilot sets about this period. Component wise its nothing like.