02-11-2010, 08:17 PM
Hello everybody; my name is Matt I'm from New Jersey and I am 19 years old.
Recently my great uncle passed away he was 100 years old, he would stay with us a lot when I was younger and because our family was concerned about him living alone he eventually migrated to our home and moved in with us around 1993/94 a few years later he sold his house, and moved most of his stuff he thought was valuable or that he wanted to a storage unit and over the years never went to look and sort out the stuff at the storage unit, so it sat there until he passed and our family had to go over there and clean it out. During this process we found alot of old fashion goodies, among those alot of his military papers, and his uniform, a 1950s Dumont TV, and this Philco tube type radio (model number unknown)
I'm afraid to plug the radio in because the wire looks disintegrated and definitely not safe
Can anyone help me idenify this unit? I can provide more photos.. Is it possible to bring this back to life and have it rewired, is there a such thing as 'getting new tubes' ? Sorry all this stuff is foreign to me... But I learn quick so don't knock me as a noob to badly. Photos attached below.
[Image: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoRt..._0560E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoR7..._0562E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoSS..._0564E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoS3..._0565E.jpg]
Edit: Added model number to thread name.
Recently my great uncle passed away he was 100 years old, he would stay with us a lot when I was younger and because our family was concerned about him living alone he eventually migrated to our home and moved in with us around 1993/94 a few years later he sold his house, and moved most of his stuff he thought was valuable or that he wanted to a storage unit and over the years never went to look and sort out the stuff at the storage unit, so it sat there until he passed and our family had to go over there and clean it out. During this process we found alot of old fashion goodies, among those alot of his military papers, and his uniform, a 1950s Dumont TV, and this Philco tube type radio (model number unknown)
I'm afraid to plug the radio in because the wire looks disintegrated and definitely not safe
Can anyone help me idenify this unit? I can provide more photos.. Is it possible to bring this back to life and have it rewired, is there a such thing as 'getting new tubes' ? Sorry all this stuff is foreign to me... But I learn quick so don't knock me as a noob to badly. Photos attached below.
[Image: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoRt..._0560E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoR7..._0562E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoSS..._0564E.jpg]
[Image: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wQzOLDIeXzM/S3SoS3..._0565E.jpg]
Edit: Added model number to thread name.
