1942 Philco Radio

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Ah, that's a cryin' shame! you would of thought that with as many Diesel Mercedes-Benz's and Volkwagens that sold here over the past 40 years you would of thought that Daimler (who owned Chrysler at the time and is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz) would of made and sold more diesels under the Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge badges...

The American motoring public was soured on Diesel powered cars, because of the poor excuse of a Diesel, that GM sold in the 70's. It was a re-designed Oldsmobile 350 V-8, that had an extremely high failure rate.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

The American motoring public was soured on Diesel powered cars, because of the poor excuse of a Diesel, that GM sold in the 70's. It was a re-designed Oldsmobile 350 V-8, that had an extremely high failure rate.

Yeah I know a couple of people who had some of those old GM Diesels but they said when they did work they got really good fuel economy somewhere around 35 MPG compared to the 10 MPG that the old 350 V8s at the time got, I believe that the diesel engines that GM was trying to develop in the '70's was GM's attempt/answer to the fuel/oil crisis of the 1970s.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Yeah I know a couple of people who had some of those old GM Diesels but they said when they did work they got really good fuel economy somewhere around 35 MPG compared to the 10 MPG that the old 350 V8s at the time got, I believe that the diesel engines that GM was trying to develop in the '70's was GM's attempt/answer to the fuel/oil crisis of the 1970s.

25 to 30 would be a more realistic MPG figure.
One of my buddies and fellow electrician had one.
The high cost of repairs on that pig, far exceeded the savings on fuel.
I always used to jokingly say that I never had to spend $1000 at the pump.

[dieseljeep]

Regarding your post #28, all radio and vintage collectors that start as early as you have the same problem, including myself.
Right now, before you have to go back to school, locate a storage place or another workplace for your hobby. Don't ask me how I know.
Regarding the Philco: That model series, seems to be as common as dirt. All the 41,42- series. I have about five sets of those model years. I wouldn't spend money on any of them.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Regarding your post #28, all radio and vintage collectors that start as early as you have the same problem, including myself.
Right now, before you have to go back to school, locate a storage place or another workplace for your hobby. Don't ask me how I know.
Regarding the Philco: That model series, seems to be as common as dirt. All the 41,42- series. I have about five sets of those model years. I wouldn't spend money on any of them.

So the Philco I just picked up and that is the source of this thread, you're saying isn't actually worth restoring? That's interesting, I paid $25 and so far haven't put any money into it yet (most of the work I've put into the unit so far was just manual labor and parts I had laying around like the dial string which right now isn't working because its not grabbing with the tuning knob to turn the tuner assembly) and it still needs new capacitors which I know not what value they are as I can't see their value very easily and I do have some capacitors laying around but not sure if they're the right values that I need, as for the filter caps they look like they are fairly recent replacements (within the past 35 years I'd say as they are still the large cardboard tubular electrolytics but aren't the originals and they are pretty common values 8/8 @ 450 and 16 @ 450.) Anyways the cabinet is still in pretty good shape yet (no gouges or scratches or water damage) the only thing that's really "bad" on the cabinet is like I said the bezel is cracked and warped but I'm not sure if it would be worth getting a replacement for it or not seeing as the replicas that Radio Daze has are $30 a pop. So how much would be too much to sink into this Philco?

Also I have been working out a deal with a local flea market owner who wants me to work in his shop as his in-house repair man because he sells records and record players and he wants me to be able to service any record players or radios he might acquire for his shop/booth and in return I would be able to also work on anything I'm working on and sell them in his booth and make some money from that. So I do have a plan in the works for something like that but its kind of slow because the gentleman I'm referring to has been working on fixing up the building he's in himself (as the building had originally before he got it had a caved in ceiling from a bursted water line that had froze during the winter and the owner of the building was letting him fix it up how ever he wanted in exchange for real cheap rent) and he's not been able to get to the area I would be occupying yet because he's been busy trying to help some booth-renters get moved in and set up and what not, and my mom isn't a very patient person and thinks that just because I haven't been able to do anything with getting my radios sold yet that it means that they need to just be thrown out because she thinks they're "cluttering my place up" even though you can walk in myt place just fine (most true hoarders you can't walk in their houses and my place you can walk in it just fine.)
Anyways I think I'm going to take some of my radios that I had gotten going already and take them to my buddy down at the flea market and see if he would be interested in trying to sell them for me.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

So the Philco I just picked up and that is the source of this thread, you're saying isn't actually worth restoring? That's interesting, I paid $25 and so far haven't put any money into it yet (most of the work I've put into the unit so far was just manual labor and parts I had laying around like the dial string which right now isn't working because its not grabbing with the tuning knob to turn the tuner assembly) and it still needs new capacitors which I know not what value they are as I can't see their value very easily and I do have some capacitors laying around but not sure if they're the right values that I need, as for the filter caps they look like they are fairly recent replacements (within the past 35 years I'd say as they are still the large cardboard tubular electrolytics but aren't the originals and they are pretty common values 8/8 @ 450 and 16 @ 450.) Anyways the cabinet is still in pretty good shape yet (no gouges or scratches or water damage) the only thing that's really "bad" on the cabinet is like I said the bezel is cracked and warped but I'm not sure if it would be worth getting a replacement for it or not seeing as the replicas that Radio Daze has are $30 a pop. So how much would be too much to sink into this Philco?

Everone has their likes and dislikes. I personally don't like push buttons and other gimmicks. Most of my radio collector buddies feel the same way.
We were discussing that issue at the last radio meet.
Don't mind me! "One man's meat is another man's poison."