[radio jeff]

I just finished a 37-116 a few months ago. The majority of the caps are pretty easy to get to, except a couple in the RF chassis. There are two in there that are buried user the arc of coils. I needed to replace the rubber grommets, so I hat to pull my RF chassis regardless. Even with the RF chassis out, it was still a pain to get to those two.

There isn't a whole lot of room under the chassis to add the new lytics. So this was the first radio I restuffed my cans on. As for the bakelite blocks, in addition to the previously mentioned methods, I find you can usually chisel out the old tar. I use a small flat blade screw driver to break out the bits of tar. I just suck them all up with my shop vac. Then use some lacquer thinner on q tips or paper towels to get out what remnants I couldn't get out with the screw driver.

Hi Nick, I was just looking on the form for some info on my philco 37-116 radio. I ran across your post/reply dealing with the caps buried under  the RF chassis. How difficult was it to remove the chassis  and where did you get the rubber mount/grommet. I purchased this radio over thirty years ago, then I refinished the cabinet. My uncle was a radio repair man and got the radio going. It has been sitting at my parents house for about that long. Now it time to recap it and get it going again. The bakelite cap block are a pain, but i dealt with them before!! I’m more into 5 tube radios and larger table tops, which are less time consuming!!!!! Any help would be appreciate.     jeff