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Preset buttons work, dial button soft volume
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10-21-2008, 11:50 PM
My Philco A-801 was built for the 1942 Desoto, which was of course not built because of the war, so the set was put into an end table. It's a transformer set, which of course originally it was a battery set. Anyway, I can get good reception and plenty of volume with the preset buttons (tuned into appropriate local signals, of course) but the "dial" button does not work! I tried shooting the sliding contacts with contact cleaner, but to no avail. It gets extremely faint volume. Any ideas?

I recapped it but, I'm using the original electrolytic can, also. It doesn't get hot, so I think the little tin can filled with boric acid will work just fine. There is no hum when the set is on. The guy who rebuilt my 1946 television swears by original electrolytic cans, if they still work.

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Preset buttons work, dial button soft volume - by Ampico66 - 10-21-2008, 11:50 PM
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