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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Ouch! I feel for ya capitan.
I would not be very suprized if it worked well with a recap and a long wire. I have a Stepped Philco tombstone, and an older cathedral in the "prized possessions" room. The tombstone was expertly restored by the guy that got me started fixin' radios, and the cathedral had it's block caps restored by yours truely. They will do rather nice with even 6-10' of wire mostly wound on a spool (which is how I tested it) when working right.
Zenith dominates my TV collection, but Philco dominates my collection of radios especially in the pre-1950 section.
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The radio is a little later design. AVC and a pentagrid converter tube. It least, it doesn't use the autodyne converter, like the earlier Philco models. With a long wire antenna, it's a great DXing machine. The 42 is a better output tube, than some of the others.