Philco roundie

[DaveWM]

ok back to the 1st replacement. the 2nd one broke right at the mount enough fo a chunk off the form to make it unreliable. so the 1st replacement was used. Don't know why but the range is fine with it now. focus is right in the middle and easy to adjust. Of course I managed to break the center coil wire, argh... but was able to graft on a hair thin piece and reconnect to the term lug. thats what I get for working on it out in a dimmly lite garage.

Anyway its looking VERY good. it has all the orig parts and a couple new tubes.

the vert is a bit bouncy, so I will end up pulling the chassis and going thru those cap in the feed back circuit/the cathode bypass cap and coupling caps at the video and the color amp tubes. I see some brown drop low volt caps around there.

I am kind of tempted to just set it up on the bench and monitor it to see if that vert settles down.

then I need to decide if I should just stash it away for spares or do something with the cabinet. the ply base is starting to delaminate. It looks like it screws on to the wood frame rails. It would not be hard to make a new base. the sides are cheap fake looking wood that is all bunged up.

I have been wanting to try to build a new cabinet, this looks like a good candidate. I am thinking of using the frame to hand on some nice lauan ply.

I have some nice wood legs that have a danish modern look. the performance of these philco hybrids is very good. I have a nice metal cabinet model, but a pretty wood one would be nice too.