Identify my Philco Predicta

[wa2ise]

You should replace those caps. The white ceramic tube ones, the black ones with yellow lettering too. They're just wax paper caps inside.

[Boobtubeman]

and remove the spare loose tubes

SR

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by radiotron

does anyone have a scamatic, or as sams for this set?
its made out of a 1958 holiday predicta

It looks a lot more like a Princess than a Holiday. The Holiday doesn't use a power transformer.

Can you find a chassis # on it ? Something like 10L43 ?

[julianburke]

I believe this is one of the Princess series. These are perhaps rarer than the Predicta sets as we know them. They were too little too late before Philco's demise.

[spudz64]

I think I found what model you have....looking at a Philco 1960 product sheet I have, it looks to be the "Fairfield", #4668, using the 10L30 chassis. Compare the measurements from the sheet below to yours and see.

[radiotron]

Originally Posted by spudz64

I think I found what model you have....looking at a Philco 1960 product sheet I have, it looks to be the "Fairfield", #4668, using the 10L30 chassis. Compare the measurements from the sheet below to yours and see.

thats it thanks!

[decojoe67]

Interesting set. I've never seen this model in the "Predicta" series. It's true that it doesn't have the desirability of the swivel tube models, but in it's own way it's a nice set. Only recently I've gotten into '50's era TV's and I'm enjoying using them more than my '40's era sets!
Good luck with it.

[bandersen]

Technically, I don't think it is in the Predicta series as it has a 90 degree CRT rather than 110.

[leadlike]

Yeah, I don't see anything on the set with the Predicta logo, even the Miss America set has that somewhere on the crt bezel. The Philco logo is the same as you would see on a Predicta Princess, but that is about it. Maybe with the bubble top Philcos selling not at all well, Philco made up some budget sets to use up those extra chassis.

[Don Lindsly]

The entire '59 TV line was designated as "Predicta". All the '59 swivel tops, and a few low end TVs, used the series string chassis. It was an updated version of the '58 "Seventeener II" box style portable.

For 1960, Philco went to the "cool chassis" design using a power transformer. Early versions used a 5U4, but soon converted to diodes. The layout and circuit design were much improved.

The 1960 logo, knobs and trim are different from the 1959. There were some carry over sets, but for the most part "Predicta" was downplayed after 1960. All bubble tops are Predictas, but not all Predictas are bubble tops. Don

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Don Lindsly

The entire '59 TV line was designated as "Predicta". All the '59 swivel tops, and a few low end TVs, used the series string chassis. It was an updated version of the '58 "Seventeener II" box style portable.

So everything in this Canadian ad can really be called a Predicta, including the "Miss America" and "Slender Seventeener" ?

http://www.rubylane.com/item/137274-...co-PREDICTA-TV

jr