Philco 42-380: Anyone up for a challenge ?
 

Reece ? Leadlike ? Sam Cogley ? Looks like fun to me :D

"Don't know if works, wires are exposed and touching and intertwining so I don't want to plug in and start a fire, needs rewireing. Nice for a project to restore or use for parts. Was stored in barn so smells of barn critters, needs to be cleaned out well."

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/atq/1787403006.html

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I generally vehemently oppose disposal of old radios as a matter of principle, but in this case, I can only think of Humpty-Dumpty..."All the king's horses, & all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty-Dumpty together again..."

Looks too far gone to me. Corrosion on the tuning cap, rusty chassis, moisture may have compromised the insulation in the power transformer. If it was curbside free, I'd take the chassis to salvage usable parts, and toss the rest. Sorry... :no:

Sure, I was kidding - especially at any price above free. I have seen some real basket cases brought back to life though.

Dear sir,

Please plug it in, oh please! <grin>

Phil Ceaux

I say too far gone, bout the most valuable parts in there are the tubes.

Ooof. I've thrown out things that looked better than that.

Oh, I don't know....maybe a little Navel Jelly and some Howard's Feed and Wax....

The dial glass and the knobs may be worth something to someone.

ick....no, it's not so much the condition factor, but the fact that I hate the looks of most Philco consoles to begin with. Just about every time someone tells me they have an old console radio, it turns out to be a 39-41 Philco done in the same style as this one.

I thought most console radios from '42 were really auto radios. This one appears to be a set really designed for AC use. This set uses two XXL tubes-what the heck are those?

Appears to be a loktal triode, crosses over to the 7A4.

extra-extra large tubes, for AM radio station transmitters? :D (Running, ducking for cover) :D

don't just type 'XXL tube' into Google-it is not a family friendly search....

Yuck. Pull the tubes & knobs and drag it back into the barn to let nature finish its work.

Philco did make 1942 consoles with car radio chassis. I owned one years ago until I wised up and gave it to the first taker. Ugly things, with dials much too small for the cabinet. I believe manufacturers were allowed to sell off whatever inventory they had sitting around when the 1942 moratorium took effect. Maybe this is one of those.

Phil Nelson

If one puts an XXL tube next to an 813 the whole picture looks kinda silly.

As for the advertised it would appear that the set is a product of systemic and methodical vandalism rather than simple exposure. If such wanton destruction hasn't extended to the rear of the set and the vitals of the chassis then such as transformers, IF cans and other specialty parts could be salvaged to somebody's gain. And any tubes that haven't whitened at the getters may prove useful somewhere....

If any of the intact cabinet parts--such as the curved, ribbed pieces at the corners on the beltline--are needed by somebody doing a resto of a better-preserved example of this model then it might be worth the price right there.

I just searched on "XXL tube" for the ducks of it and found several pages of search results. However, none of them (on the first page, anyway) had anything to do with radio or vacuum tubes, type XXL or otherwise. Just seven pages of links to (probably) XXX-rated garbage. Sheeeesh.