08-14-2009, 04:19 PM
Hi! I have recently volunteered to restore the chassis, with the help of a radio engineer of my acquaintance, of a Philco Model 38-8. This radio belonged to my grandfather, whom I never met and who died over 60 years ago (I am told the family actually listened to Hitler on the SW, on this thing, but that could be urban legend... they were very small at the time, and they just could have been listening to the news! 
). The chassis was pretty shot and awfully dirty (!) when I got my hands on it, but we'll spiff it up, nicely.
I intend to replace all the caps and resistors, power transformer, tubes, and those lovely rotting wires. This doesn't seem too daunting, plus I have help, and all necessary schemos and service docs from the very handy Chuck.
But not having ever had my hands on a unit like this, before, I will need to know certain things germain to it, from time to time, so I'm happy to be here! And here comes my first question (it's pretty basic):
On the immediate left of the antenna terminals is a hole thru the chassis. Coming thru that hole on this particular unit was a cloth-covered, dual-conductor wire (cut off). Sadly, it wasn't attached to anything inside the radio, and the whole thing came right out!
We can't figure out if that wire was "for" anything, or if it was just the state of how the radio got stored, maybe 50+ years ago! Any clues?
Thanks in advance! Back again soon!
Russ!
NYC
). The chassis was pretty shot and awfully dirty (!) when I got my hands on it, but we'll spiff it up, nicely.I intend to replace all the caps and resistors, power transformer, tubes, and those lovely rotting wires. This doesn't seem too daunting, plus I have help, and all necessary schemos and service docs from the very handy Chuck.
But not having ever had my hands on a unit like this, before, I will need to know certain things germain to it, from time to time, so I'm happy to be here! And here comes my first question (it's pretty basic):
On the immediate left of the antenna terminals is a hole thru the chassis. Coming thru that hole on this particular unit was a cloth-covered, dual-conductor wire (cut off). Sadly, it wasn't attached to anything inside the radio, and the whole thing came right out!
We can't figure out if that wire was "for" anything, or if it was just the state of how the radio got stored, maybe 50+ years ago! Any clues?
Thanks in advance! Back again soon!
Russ!
NYC
