[brandonkr1]

Hello everyone! I’m new here. I have a philco 60 that’s been in my family for years. I remember listening to it when I was little. My dad is giving it to me, but it doesn’t work. I plan on replacing all caps and testing all resistors. Basically an electronic “restoration” if you want to call it that. The reason it doesn’t work is because the dreaded oscillator coil is open….    It worked perfectly before that, so that’s the first thing I’ll do, then I’ll work on the caps. My question is, how critical is it to wind the coil perfectly? It’s the lower section of the oscillator that gets all corroded. I know it’s about 18 turns, and I have 36 gauge wire for it. But I’m worried about overlapping and gaps as I wind it…. I will try my best to get it nice, but I know it’s not going to look like a factory job… for now I’m not concerned about the antenna coil because we never use the short wave. But if I’m successful, I may rewind the antenna coil at a later date since it’s only about 7 turns I believe.