The philco is phixed
It was a mess in there - I wish I had taken a before pic. Not only had the insulation crumbled on most of the wire, some of it had melted, and someone had tried to change some of the capacitors (a long time ago - the 'new' caps were nearly as old as the originals) and had attached them by splicing wires and using tape. I just took all the old wire and caps out and put it back together nearly from scratch following the schematic in the 1940 Beitman's, so it took me longer than expected. And the 35A5 (output tube) had been swapped for for a 50A5, surprisingly it didn't make much difference, but I dug up a 35A5 out of a box of used tubes and swapped it in anyway.
Over the past few years I've been trying to make the table radio collection I have on this shelf look more and more symmetrical (you'll see what I mean when you look at the pic). This second 1940 model, loctal tube era, Philco was sort of the last piece of the puzzle. I think this is as symmetrical as I'm going to get.
12-23-2020, 05:53 PM
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