Philco 46-1203, anything special about it?

[Electronic M]

I think the high bid was $2. I would have have bid it up to $20 no problem if I did not already own one, and was not trying to free up space. You are right about these being great machines to play 78's on. I have a good size collection of swing 78's and my Philco 46-1203 is my regular go to player for them. That is probably my favorite table radio-phono looks wise.

Captinclock: Sorry about your bad luck with yours. Mine works like a champ all around. I don't know where you are getting the impression these are a rare model....I've seen at least 6 (probably closer to 10, but I lost count a long ways back) in the past decade, and quite a few recently. The folks on Audiokarma tend not to care about pre-HiFi gear, or know much about it. You'd be better off asking us or the folks here: http://antiqueradios.com/forums/inde...d3efb2f2e1eb8b about pre-HiFi stuff. It is possible you were sold a bad IF can on purpose, or perhaps you just made a mistake in trouble shooting it or working on it.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I think the high bid was $2. I would have have bid it up to $20 no problem if I did not already own one, and was not trying to free up space. You are right about these being great machines to play 78's on. I have a good size collection of swing 78's and my Philco 46-1203 is my regular go to player for them. That is probably my favorite table radio-phono looks wise.

Captinclock: Sorry about your bad luck with yours. Mine works like a champ all around. I don't know where you are getting the impression these are a rare model....I've seen at least 6 (probably closer to 10, but I lost count a long ways back) in the past decade, and quite a few recently. The folks on Audiokarma tend not to care about pre-HiFi gear, or know much about it. You'd be better off asking us or the folks here: http://antiqueradios.com/forums/inde...d3efb2f2e1eb8b about pre-HiFi stuff. It is possible you were sold a bad IF can on purpose, or perhaps you just made a mistake in trouble shooting it or working on it.

Thanks, Tom!
I didn't think it went that cheap! I know, the Crosley you bought went for considerly more, more than I would've paid, be then, I'm rather a tight SOS.
All in all, it was an interesting event.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I think the high bid was $2. I would have have bid it up to $20 no problem if I did not already own one, and was not trying to free up space. You are right about these being great machines to play 78's on. I have a good size collection of swing 78's and my Philco 46-1203 is my regular go to player for them. That is probably my favorite table radio-phono looks wise.

Captinclock: Sorry about your bad luck with yours. Mine works like a champ all around. I don't know where you are getting the impression these are a rare model....I've seen at least 6 (probably closer to 10, but I lost count a long ways back) in the past decade, and quite a few recently. The folks on Audiokarma tend not to care about pre-HiFi gear, or know much about it. You'd be better off asking us or the folks here: http://antiqueradios.com/forums/inde...d3efb2f2e1eb8b about pre-HiFi stuff. It is possible you were sold a bad IF can on purpose, or perhaps you just made a mistake in trouble shooting it or working on it.

Well the original IF Can (it was the Primary IF Can by the way) was measuring as "open" on the primary side of the Transformer and so I bought a set of IF cans and an Oscillator coil from someone on ebay and the person I bought them from said that they were supposedly pulled from a working Philco radio and I paid like $20 for the cans which when I went to install the "new" coil into the radio (it had a piece of cardboard on it that was notched for all of the wires to thread through and I wanted to remove that piece of cardboard because the original IF can in my radio didn't have that piece of cardboard in it and it made it hard to solder the wire leads to the coil which I already had a hard enough time getting to without that piece of cardboard in the way) anyways when I went to remove that piece of cardboard I accidentally pulled the coil wires loose from the terminals which I tried my best to resolder those wires back to where they originally went but as luck would have it I might of screwed up the coil by doing that because then the coil when I measured it, measured "open" at the same spot as the original coil did and I even tried moving the coil wire leads around to different terminals and it still would measure "open" at the same spot (which is why I think that the coil was actually bad or faulty to begin with as I never actually got the chance to test the coil before I "broke it".

And that's why I was thinking that Philco might of made some faulty IF cans because if two identical IF cans were measured "open" at the same spot that were from two radios from the same company from the same time period I would think that it would point to faulty IF cans from the factory.