Zenith G730, Philco PT-41

[Adam]

I'm beginning my break by fixing a couple of radios before I move on to working on my Lincoln.

I got the Zenith going already, I'm listening to it now. I picked it up at the WARCI swap meet about 3 years ago, just finally got to working on it last night. It's one of those hi-fi models with the electrostatic tweeter. I've had several of the larger models with the electrostatic tweeter and bigger main speaker from this era, but I think this one sounds better. Maybe something about the acoustics of the smaller cabinet?

The Philco will probably take me all day, this is one of those radios where I'm going to have to replace all the wire...

I should probably put this in the solid state section, but after the Philco I have this interesting RCA 8-track player lined up (It goes in a wood cabinet with built in speakers). One of the channels is dead - I can hear static when I mess with the controls but no sound, I'm hoping it's just a bad coupling capacitor and not a hard to find transistor or nearly impossible to find head.