09-12-2014, 07:43 PM
I bought a Philco 41-608 yesterday and it already has been restored with modern capacitors by a past owner, but I admit some of the wire in the chassis should have been replaced but wasn't. The speaker wire and such is original and also needs replacement.
The radio was working nicely but suddenly when I was testing a pair of wires running with each other trying to find the power for the record player with a multimeter, it began starting to smell burning and a couple tubes got bright. I quickly unplugged it.
I never saw any smoke nor did anything seem to burst. I pulled the chassis out and I don't see any burned wires or capacitors underneath. but something is burning for sure.
With the chassis out of the cabinet sitting on plastic and plugged in to an outlet on a switch so I don't have to touch the chassis or radio at all, the dial light bulbs blinks some at first during the 'warm up' period, then there is a sizzling sound from the big power transformer and it gets very hot. There seems to be no leakage from it (yet..).
The small transformer next to it looks trashed. Is it the record player motor one?
[Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/i...ble1_1.jpg]
A vac tube directly behind it looks like it went bad. Could that be why?
[Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/i...ble1_2.jpg]
The radio was working nicely but suddenly when I was testing a pair of wires running with each other trying to find the power for the record player with a multimeter, it began starting to smell burning and a couple tubes got bright. I quickly unplugged it.
I never saw any smoke nor did anything seem to burst. I pulled the chassis out and I don't see any burned wires or capacitors underneath. but something is burning for sure.
With the chassis out of the cabinet sitting on plastic and plugged in to an outlet on a switch so I don't have to touch the chassis or radio at all, the dial light bulbs blinks some at first during the 'warm up' period, then there is a sizzling sound from the big power transformer and it gets very hot. There seems to be no leakage from it (yet..).
The small transformer next to it looks trashed. Is it the record player motor one?
[Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/i...ble1_1.jpg]
A vac tube directly behind it looks like it went bad. Could that be why?
[Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/i...ble1_2.jpg]
