[BILL]

I got that portable I got from you, 39-72, playing ,turned out to be more of a job than I first thought it would be, All the tubes where burned out! someone must have use the wrong "A" voltage, but the original tubes where long and skinny, the replacements I had the cut down the base to get them to fit! Anyways Ive still was able to use the original tube shields and it plays great !It's surpriseing how good this little four tube sets can work

[Ron Ramirez]

Excellent! Now all you need are batteries - better yet, a reproduction battery case from Bill the Batterymaker in Indianapolis - and you're all set for the next power outage!

[BILL]

By any chance is the 39-72T in the Photo Gallary, my radio I own now?

[Ron Ramirez]

Yes, I did photograph it and added it to the Gallery before I sold it to you:
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1939c.htm#b

But thanks for asking, I appreciate it. I still wonder why so many people won't offer to donate photos to my site's Gallery - for FREE - while they will rush to give their $25 to Radiomuseeeeeeum in order to give them photos.

[BILL]

Talk about pictures, didn't I send you a picture of my 1930 TRANSITONE(ARC) auto radio?
I've also got a Transitone 3(Philco) ,one of the dials from a 1929 Transitone(ARC) and a 930 PHILCO Transitone with the original sales display.If these pictures are anything you can use let me know

[Arran]

Yes, I did photograph it and added it to the Gallery before I sold it to you:
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1939c.htm#b

But thanks for asking, I appreciate it. I still wonder why so many people won't offer to donate photos to my site's Gallery - for FREE - while they will rush to give their $25 to Radiomuseeeeeeum in order to give them photos.

I will, once I unearth my 40-780, I need to take some photos of it anyhow before I refinish the cabinet. I have a few Canadian models that I need to finish refinishing and I can forward those too. I don't know what the arrangement is at Radiomuseeeeeeum, whether it's a pay site or whether it's a lend-lease affair or both. I don't even like posting photos online let alone having to pay to do it, but in the case of the photo gallery it's educational, about the worst that could happen is a fleabay seller stealing the photos to sell his set.
Regards
Arran

[Ron Ramirez]

Apologies for the rant about Radiomuseum...H**l, it's (still) a free country - Canada too - and anyone is of course free to give pictures to this site without charge, or to Radiomuseum for $25, or whatever.

Arran, eBay sellers have stolen pictures from the Philco Gallery in the past, but I made it harder to do this (I won't go into details). Plus each image is now watermarked, so there is no doubt where it came from if someone does steal an image.

BILL - No, I don't recall your sending me a photo of the Transitone 3...I'll certainly be happy to use anything you wish to send...

[Arran]

I got that portable I got from you, 39-72, playing ,turned out to be more of a job than I first thought it would be, All the tubes where burned out! someone must have use the wrong "A" voltage, but the original tubes where long and skinny, the replacements I had the cut down the base to get them to fit! Anyways Ive still was able to use the original tube shields and it plays great !It's surpriseing how good this little four tube sets can work

I know all about four tube battery sets, back when I started in Alberta farm battery radios were the least expensive way to get into 1930s radios. Not only have I found that many four tubers are excellent performers but I could usaully get them working with most if not all of the original capacitors left in place.
As for the tall skinny tublier battery tubes those seem to have been standard issue in most battery sets with 1.5 volt tubes from 1938 till sometime before the war, to me it looks like the same envelope that they used for many magic eye tubes. After the war they all used the shorter GT types with the metal band and later switched to the seven pin miniature types. If you keep looking you should be able to find a good set of the original style tubes, probably in a junker farm, or portable, or even one that isn't a junker but doesn't have the mechanical fit problems with the wider bases.
Regards
Arran

[Arran]

Apologies for the rant about Radiomuseum...H**l, it's (still) a free country - Canada too - and anyone is of course free to give pictures to this site without charge, or to Radiomuseum for $25, or whatever.

Arran, eBay sellers have stolen pictures from the Philco Gallery in the past, but I made it harder to do this (I won't go into details). Plus each image is now watermarked, so there is no doubt where it came from if someone does steal an image.

BILL - No, I don't recall your sending me a photo of the Transitone 3...I'll certainly be happy to use anything you wish to send...

Ron;
Rant away about Radiomuseeeem, I don't particularly like the format or the layout of their website myself. What I don't understand is why people are constantly putting plugs about that site on here and the other forum, do they have an Amway style network marketing scheme or something? The photo gallery and the rest of it is pretty crude and barren for a pay site, the only good thing about it is that they do have schematics for a lot of European sets, but then again there are other sources of those too.
Regards
Arran