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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I've got one. I need to recap it eventually. It still works decently on original caps (I've only given it a few minutes of run time to test it though), performance seemed good for a early post war set (most post war FM sets seem to have weak FM)...It was getting comparable reception to a modern set.
I almost recapped mine, but it's a bit tight under chassis, one of the paper caps serves as a coil form (which would have made me re-stuff that then all the other caps to be consistent), and it works which makes it's recap priority lower than other projects that don't work.
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I've found most early postwar FM tuners to be piss poor performers. A bulk use the Hazeltine fremodyne which has the sensitivity of a potato...
Exceptions to the rule of terrible post-war FM performance are the GE XFM-1 (mediocre), the Edwards Fidelotuner (mediocre), and the Meissner 8C (phenomenal).
I'll move my Philco up the restoration queue.