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Just picked up a 1936 Philco 116B Tombstone Radio Today and need some info on it
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OK so I've made some progress, I've restuffed a couple of the bakelite blocks (it was actually quite easy once I was able to get the wire leads from the old capacitors taken care of), and I powered on the radio and the radio's sound quality perked up by about 250% from what it was by just restuffing 2 of the bakelite blocks and replacing the oddball .00125 MFD capacitor (which I was able to replace with a .001 MFD Capacitor I had laying around that I had forgotten I had).

Only thing I've noticed is that the tone control switch tends to hum a little bit when you switch in between the different tone modes, which it sounds like a loose ground kind of hum, the hum goes away as soon as you take your hand off the tone control.
Any ideas as to what that hum might be?


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RE: Just picked up a 1936 Philco 116B Tombstone Radio Today and need some info on it - by captainclock1988 - 01-02-2020, 04:39 PM



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