[audin]

Hello,

I'm restoring my first radio, a philco 112 lowboy.

The radio was found on craigslist for $50. To my untrained eye it looks mostly unmolested.

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I have done a bit of work on the cabinet and it now looks like this:

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Next up is a new coat of lacquer.

I am now trying to wrap my head around tube electronics The top of the chassis looks like this:

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And the bottom like this:

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As far as I can tell everything is original. I have avoided the urge to plug it in and have now removed enough components from it that doing so wouldn't get me anywhere anyway.

I've ordered a bunch of capacitors and resistors from JustRadios which will hopefully show up soon so I can move on with the soldering.

This model has a large very annoying 'condenser block' thing which seems to contain all the larger capacitors.

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I wasn't able to get the innards out using a heat gun, so I moved up to heating the sides with a propane blow torch. That worked quite well and now i have the case free:

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The heat did beat up the paint a little, so I plan to respray it.

In case anyone has ever wondered, the innards look like this:

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and one of the capacitors unrolled like this:

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Am I correct in thinking that none of these capacitors are electrolytics? They all seem to be paper.

I am replacing them all with film capacitors.

There is one coil which looks different from the others:

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That is the best picture I could get of it. I understand these can corrode? is that what the little dots are? I haven't tested any of them for openness yet.

Anyhow I hope all my rambling is interesting to someone out there...