1942 Philco Radio

[Electronic M]

Some people will buy a non-working tube radio for looks/as a conversation piece. Sometimes a fellow collector who is a better tech or knows a trick you don't will buy your failed project and get it working right......Either way selling it non-working exponentially increases the chances it will live on/again over just recycling it.

As for the rectifier i the Grundig....Google "Bridge rectifier", or "diode bridge" they make single piece modern ones labeled the same, or you could just wire up four conventional diodes and have the same thing....

If I knew you wanted to flip the Philco I'd probably told you to think twice since most pre-HiFi consoles are hard to sell RESTORED at the low prices most ask for un-restored examples.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Some people will buy a non-working tube radio for looks/as a conversation piece. Sometimes a fellow collector who is a better tech or knows a trick you don't will buy your failed project and get it working right......Either way selling it non-working exponentially increases the chances it will live on/again over just recycling it.

As for the rectifier i the Grundig....Google "Bridge rectifier", or "diode bridge" they make single piece modern ones labeled the same, or you could just wire up four conventional diodes and have the same thing....

If I knew you wanted to flip the Philco I'd probably told you to think twice since most pre-HiFi consoles are hard to sell RESTORED at the low prices most ask for un-restored examples.

I see. Well Its too late now, I've already bought it so I guess I could just post it on Barter town and see if someone else on here might want it to fiddle around with because I'm kind of stumpped on it as far as trying to figure out why the dial string I just had going is no longer wanting to work, and I even tried restringing it again and still no luck so I really just don't know.

[Captainclock]

Well I restrung the tuner string yet again on this old philco and this time I was sucessful at getting it going, all I did was add a 3rd turn to the tuning knob and voila! It works!

So now all I need to do is recap the radio and fix the dial glass and I'll be good to go hopefully.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Well I restrung the tuner string yet again on this old philco and this time I was sucessful at getting it going, all I did was add a 3rd turn to the tuning knob and voila! It works!

So now all I need to do is recap the radio and fix the dial glass and I'll be good to go hopefully.

As I mentioned in earlier postings, a lot of times, you have to try a few different time to get these things right. I don't know of any tech that was crazy about dial cord restringing.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

As I mentioned in earlier postings, a lot of times, you have to try a few different time to get these things right. I don't know of any tech that was crazy about dial cord restringing.

Yeah, I'm definitely not too crazy about it that's for sure.

So yeah, I just need to get this radio recapped and the dial glass fixed up and that should straighten things out for this radio (I guess I'll just leave the damaged bezel in place and maybe let someone else monkey with replacing that if they want to, once I get this thing up and running electronically and sold to an interested party.