[Ron Ramirez]

In May 2012, I acquired a 37-670B from the auction site.

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Later on, I found a better cabinet (38-2670, identical cabinet) and purchased it. I refinished this cabinet two years ago.

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In between then and now, I also managed to acquire two extra chassis. One came from a 37-670 console I bought at Kutztown in 2013 just for the chassis.

It was the Kutztown chassis that I decided to restore, as it seemed to be in better shape than the others.

I started working on it right before this year's fall Kutztown meet, and it is now up and running - more or less.

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This chassis had many taper-top (ST) tubes installed, so I decided to populate the remaining sockets with ST tubes as well to give it an "original" appearance.

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I even went the "extra mile" and restuffed most of the original paper caps. (Only two that are hidden inside the RF unit were not restuffed.)

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I gave it a quick alignment today, and it works on all five bands!

Now, I said it "more or less" works. As I began alignment today, the set began to make faint crackling and sizzling sounds intermittently, making crackling noises through the speaker in time with the crackling and sizzling.

I suspect one of the two Candohms is failing, as the power transformer does not seem to be getting excessively hot.

So both Candohms will be getting replaced with individual resistors (and terminal strips) soon.

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Somehow in our move across town in Fall 2013, I have managed to misplace the speaker board upon which the grille cloth was mounted. If I can't find it, I shall have to make another from mat board. Fortunately, I have some Philco "Ribbed" repro cloth.