Philco 48-482 question

[dieseljeep]

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.

I have one, as well! Mine needs a re-cap, FM is non-existant. FM1000 checks good. Philco referred to that circuit as a locked oscillator FM detector. It couldn't have been that good, they only used it for a year or two.
That thing was $150 in 1948! They seemed to sell a lot of them.