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Philco 37-690 Restoration
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Good morning, got started last weekend on restoring my Philco 37-690. Both chassis have no rust and are in excellent physical condition--still trying to figure out what to use for the chassis shield that goes on the bottom of the receiver--I don't feel comfortable with the underside of the receiver being exposed. The dial is in very good shape other than a small crack between the start & end of the dial which isn't too bad--I would get a repro dial but the one Radio Daze has doesn't have the printing on it in the correct font and there is other inaccuracies. I'm starting on the receiver chassis then move on to the power unit. I plan to re-stuff the electrolytics and the 2 paper caps on the power unit but not stuff the paper caps on the receiver unit for now (I'll save the old caps to restuff later) I replaced 3 metal tubes and 3 missing tube shields already and fixed the magnetic tuning switch as it was intermittent and rebuilt all the lamps. I have 2/3 of the receiver re-capped and replaced 1 resistor in the RF unit. I will finish up on the receiver chassis tonight.   Ken


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Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-11-2018, 05:33 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-11-2018, 07:47 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-12-2018, 05:48 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-12-2018, 10:10 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 04:51 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:38 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 09:03 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by GarySP - 05-13-2018, 09:44 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Phlogiston - 05-13-2018, 10:21 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 04:30 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:42 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:44 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 06:26 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 06:36 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-15-2018, 08:14 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-15-2018, 09:05 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 11:22 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 05-19-2018, 08:19 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Phlogiston - 05-19-2018, 09:39 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-19-2018, 02:54 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-19-2018, 06:02 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 05-20-2018, 08:15 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-21-2018, 04:37 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 06:19 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by WyTex - 05-26-2018, 08:01 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 10:40 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 12:29 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by KCMike - 05-26-2018, 12:32 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 01:44 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 02:40 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 02:58 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 03:16 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 06-09-2018, 06:38 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 06-09-2018, 06:50 PM



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