Well, I was sniffin around the Philco forum and some guy there has one of these running on original components (sept tubes). So I figured why not try this one out. I tested all the tubes and had two out of four 26s bad. The rect. and 27 were good and I don't have settings for the 117
I replaced the two 26s and brought it up slow on a variac, keeping a close eye on the current draw. It's rated at 50 watts and showed 54 at 100 volts. There was no magic smoke anywhere, but no sound either.
I popped the bottom off and poked around a bit. There's a 2meg resisitor that looks like a fuse, and it tested at 2.4 meg. There was one plastic cap that has been replaced at some time. I figured maybe I need an antenna and a ground, so I ran a wire from the ground post on the chassis to a water pipe, and rigged up a long wire for an antenna. Still no sound, not even a hum. I took the front off the speaker and it looks perfect
Any ideas? Thanks, Jay