[jrblasde]

Nicely done! Looks like you won’t be needing those mica sheets just yet.

[morzh]

Yeah, I would have to take out the cap again: the access to those screws is highly obstructed with the cap already installed, and it seems both padders worked well the way they are.

[morzh]

I assembled the radio, having given it a good wipe with Goop.
This is how the paper towel looked after just one swipe:
   


The video of fully assembled radio is here. It is, as usual, in my basement and fitted with a 3-ft piece of wire for an antenna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUWVxogmsGo

This concludes this project, more or less.

[Arran]

Mike;
From what I can recall about the 60L I have the lower end of the so called "police band" comprises of the upper end of what is now the AM broadcast band. I have a G.E set with a similar setup, I can't remember the model number but it's from 1933. I seem to remember that during the 1930s the AM broadcast band, in North America, stopped around 1500 KC or 1550, now it goes up to 1700 KC, so if you have a station above 1500 KC in your area it is useful for that. I'm guessing that this may have been changed in the early 1940s as there was a lot of reallocating of radio station frequencies around that time. I have never actually seen a police radio that operated at those lower frequencies, and from what I heard they worked one way like in the movies, where they would receive messages but not send, two way was rare. I hope that may answer Peter's question under your first video.
Happy Christmas
Happy New Year
Arran

[morzh]

Could be. I heard some faint something, and that was with no antenna.
I consciously decided not to mess with the police band as it is not too interestin for me. Electrically it works, and that's enough (as an indication of how uninterested I am in it, I could tell that when I discovered that on my 38-690 the only open coil was the Police band, I chose not to even touch it. Too much effort for a total lack of a result).

I still owe the final photograph, which I hope to make today. Isimply forgot I did not place them here after I shot the movie: holding a camera in my hands confused me into the sense of full accomplishment

[GarySP]

Goop is my go-to (notice not gojo) cleaner for hands and radios. Just be sure to buy the non-abrasive formula.
The upper AM band is used around here for driving instructions to events. That, and talking houses transmitters used by realtors. You're not missing much! Take care and BE HEALTHY! Gary

[morzh]

Gary

Yes, I cleaned it with Goop, (the photo above is one swipe of the paper towel across Gooped top of the radio), I bought some supply of non-abrasive (no pumice, dark-blue label) from Harbor Freight some time ago; we had a lengthy discussion this last fall in October about it, as I was looking for GoJo, and it has been discontinued.
https://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthrea...light=goop

This said, these two (non-abrasive) Goop and GoJo, I think, were the same; both smell the same and feel the same, and did the same job.
BTW, the website says that the Goop is "Waterless formula", and the ingredients say "water", in addition to isoparaffins, fatty acid surfactants etc.

As for the upper AM here, I am not even sure what it is used for.

[Arran]

Where I am there is a Punjabi language station at the upper end of the Am broadcast band, from Blaine, Washington, though I think their market is the greater Vancouver area since Blaine might be lucky to have one East Indian restaurant given it's size. At night I can pick up 1520 kXA, and 1530 KFBK, a weak East Indian station at 1550, not the one in Blaine I mentioned, KVRI, which is at 1600.
Happy Christmas
Happy New Year
Arran

[morzh]

As promised, the phinal photos.

   
   
   

[dconant]

Nice looking radio Mike. Never seen the one next to the 60.

[morzh]

Dan, this was the previous project, finished this fall; the thread is here also.
Philco 37-604.

[MrFixr55]

All nice looking.  Arran, the GE from 1933 may be the GE version of the RCA R-28-P "Radiolette", especially if it has what looks like an add-on Broadcast-Police Band selector.  A pix is below:
   



The radio is rather interesting in that it is a 5 tube has an RF amp, a pentagrid (2A7) convertor, NO IF AMP (!!!???), a biased "power' detector", no AVC, and a 2A5 Pentode power amp (2.5V filament version of the 42).  This is an entry level set, likely a "loss leader", that was originally sold for $28.50 without the police band, but RCA had to reduce the price to $19.99 when Philco introduced the 80 Jr. for $15.99, causing an uproar and cries of "Foul!!!" by RCA and others.  This radio was likely sold as an RCA Victor, GE, Westinghouse and the example in my collection, Canadian Victor Talking Machines.  When RCA was spun off from GE, an agreement between RCA, GE and Westinghouse was that RCA would produce radios for all 3 brands for several years.  Previously, all RCA radios were built either by GE, Westinghouse or "Wireless Specialty Apparatus".  RCA did not have manufacturing capabilities until they bought the Victor talking Machine Company, which was producing radios themselves at this time.  The 1934 R-37 was similar except that they added an IF amp and replaced the power detector with a 2B7 diode detector / pentode 1st AF Amp.