05-26-2018, 07:20 AM
By now it's mid-March.
The amp chassis was fairly easy and painless to rebuild, even considering the new woofer and tweeter cables which had to be made and the repair work to one of the power transformer sockets. It has a new power cord with the proper fused plug as well, with 2 amp fuses in place as per original.
Now comes the fun part - the tuner chassis.
Remember those two wires connected to the remaining two screws on the antenna terminal board? Remember how I said the radio was just barely picking up my home AM transmitter (and nothing else) before I started working on this set?
There was a good reason for that.
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...90_032.jpg]
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...90_033.jpg]
(These photos were taken after removal of the tuner chassis' RF unit.)
The hacker - er, repairman - had connected the set's RED (antenna) lead to the BNC connector. The other two screws connect to ground! The wires, being grounded to the set's chassis, had no effect as an antenna.
The amp chassis was fairly easy and painless to rebuild, even considering the new woofer and tweeter cables which had to be made and the repair work to one of the power transformer sockets. It has a new power cord with the proper fused plug as well, with 2 amp fuses in place as per original.
Now comes the fun part - the tuner chassis.
Remember those two wires connected to the remaining two screws on the antenna terminal board? Remember how I said the radio was just barely picking up my home AM transmitter (and nothing else) before I started working on this set?
There was a good reason for that.
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...90_032.jpg]
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...90_033.jpg]
(These photos were taken after removal of the tuner chassis' RF unit.)
The hacker - er, repairman - had connected the set's RED (antenna) lead to the BNC connector. The other two screws connect to ground! The wires, being grounded to the set's chassis, had no effect as an antenna.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
