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Philco model 512
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It’s been a bit since my last Philco find.  Been messing around with some solid-state stuff and need to get back to a good old hollow state chassis.  Picked this up today for my birthday present from my awesome and somehow very understanding and beautiful wife.  Need to find the matching speaker now.   

Matching Speaker search is over.  Needs some work but for the price it was a great deal.


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Philco's: 86 Lowboy 90 Highboy 95 Highboy 76 Highboy 112X Console 118X Console 41-265 Console 41-608P Console 52GC 370 LZ 512 20 Baby Grand 70 Baby Grand 71B 52B 118B 60B 84B 610B 37-89B 38-10T 38-35B 41-221CI 42-321T 46-1203 48-214 48-206 49-506
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Hello slford310,
That is one sharp looking radio and it looks like it is in great shape too.
Nice Job !!

Sincerely Richard
#3

Wow! Very nice!

No matter where you go, there you are.
#4

I spent many hours with one of those, the 514 green. It had spent 30+ years in the attic of a garage. Worst clean up job I've ever had. That paint is tough, I took off a lot of nicotine. Best part was the ps capacitor block was filled with wax, not tar, easy peasy. Worst part was the summer heat from the garage venue had melted some of the wax and it oozed out onto the chassis. Replacing the metal dial cord was a hair puller.
#5

There was a 511, (or an updated 1929 model 65 version) Spanish Brown, model in my region, and even though it had obviously been repainted the seller insisted that it was original, the lack of shading was what tipped me off that it was not original. I have thought it might be interesting to customize a brown one with bad paint job, or rust. Getting a matching speaker for something like a 512 might be a problem, Apparently Philco sold the matching speakers separately, in case a potential buyer wanted to keep using a speaker they already owned, and since they cost an extra $27, that probably happened a lot. From what I remember, according to Ron's book, the ornamentation on sets like the 512 were hand painted, so you could have the flowers painted on different cabinets by different people, and the same goes with the speakers.
Regards
Arran
#6

The one I restored had an RCA 100 speaker, the big cast iron one that produced sound from both front and back.




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