[Chuck Schwark]

Some repairmen/shops have an hourly rate, plus parts some give a ball park figure. To replace all the bad caps and check/replace resistors, any tubes that are bad/weak to replace, wiring, re-alignment, etc. at least $100-150 maybe.
Cost of restoration depends solely on the repairman's hourly rate doing the restoration and parts cost obviously.
Hard to guess.

Cost of converting it are far and away more expen$$ive than using an outboard power supply specially made for radios like this or using a repro Philco battery pack (AB type) that takes standard/rechargeable 9V and C cells. Operating the set as it was originally designed to do instead of permanently modifying an original antique. :-)

Email Bill the Batterymaker at: batterymaker@gmail.com
He makes battery reproductions of A, B batteries -- AB Packs with repro Philco wrappers
and sizes to fit into your set to plug right into the battery plug and harness in your set.

Here's a sample of his work:

[Image: http://www.philcorepairbench.com/images/...er3971.jpg]

This set takes three packs, but your set takes one A-B combo pack with one
4-pin socket to match your harness plug.


Chuck