08-02-2014, 12:02 AM
Mike,
Nope, no retuffing either, I've offered that service to a few people and nobody could see the use in that, nor in using cloth wire. These chassis use mostly the tubular type paper capacitors anyhow, except maybe the line capacitor. I don't even bother with restuffing paper caps unless the set is all original, or there is something unique about it, even so I don't find it that labor intensive since I usually cook out several at a time in an old toaster oven, then clean off the residue from the outside of the shells with lacquer thinner, that would add about an extra two hours of labor onto a set like this
Sometimes I will restuff a cardboard tube electrolytic in an AC/DC radio since it takes as much time to mount a terminal strip, and to wire everything to it, as it does to stuff some radial lead electrolytics, with leads, in the old tube.
As I said the power transformer being shot would easily put it up over the $200 range, even with a salvaged one, fortunately you could use an off the shelf replacement either from Edcor or from AES, which of course would push it closer to the $300 range.
https://www.edcorusa.com/xpwrseries-1#/s...geNumber=1
Quite frankly if the power transformer was shot in something like this I would probably suggest either abandoning the project or picking up a parts chassis, 39-30s/31XFs seem to be fairly common. The output transformer may or may not be shot, the single ended ones seem to hold up better then the push pull ones in Philcos from this era, in some cases it may have been replaced in a previous repair with an aftermarket one. His biggest issue is going to be to find another speaker, the original is missing, but I have seen 10'' and 12'' console speakers show up fairly regularly on that auction site.
The cosmetic stuff I don't even take into account, I just tell the customer where to get it and let them handle it, like I did with this fellow, other then installing the parts in the set for them. I don't really see the sense of acting as a go between since there are not really any special skills involved to contact Larry Bordanaro or Renovated Radios and put an order in.
Regards
Arran
Nope, no retuffing either, I've offered that service to a few people and nobody could see the use in that, nor in using cloth wire. These chassis use mostly the tubular type paper capacitors anyhow, except maybe the line capacitor. I don't even bother with restuffing paper caps unless the set is all original, or there is something unique about it, even so I don't find it that labor intensive since I usually cook out several at a time in an old toaster oven, then clean off the residue from the outside of the shells with lacquer thinner, that would add about an extra two hours of labor onto a set like this
Sometimes I will restuff a cardboard tube electrolytic in an AC/DC radio since it takes as much time to mount a terminal strip, and to wire everything to it, as it does to stuff some radial lead electrolytics, with leads, in the old tube.
As I said the power transformer being shot would easily put it up over the $200 range, even with a salvaged one, fortunately you could use an off the shelf replacement either from Edcor or from AES, which of course would push it closer to the $300 range.
https://www.edcorusa.com/xpwrseries-1#/s...geNumber=1
Quite frankly if the power transformer was shot in something like this I would probably suggest either abandoning the project or picking up a parts chassis, 39-30s/31XFs seem to be fairly common. The output transformer may or may not be shot, the single ended ones seem to hold up better then the push pull ones in Philcos from this era, in some cases it may have been replaced in a previous repair with an aftermarket one. His biggest issue is going to be to find another speaker, the original is missing, but I have seen 10'' and 12'' console speakers show up fairly regularly on that auction site.
The cosmetic stuff I don't even take into account, I just tell the customer where to get it and let them handle it, like I did with this fellow, other then installing the parts in the set for them. I don't really see the sense of acting as a go between since there are not really any special skills involved to contact Larry Bordanaro or Renovated Radios and put an order in.
Regards
Arran
