03-16-2010, 02:14 PM
Howdy all. I have aquired a Philco 48-1270, which is in pretty rough shape. My 11 year old boy and I are taking it on as a project. To start with, all the wires leading from the chassis to the components have all been snipped and robbed. The guy who I got it from found it in a cabin he had bought and was cleaning out. originally, he wanted to try to restore it but after moving in, found he had no room for it, so he stuck it out in the yard for a couple weeks, uncovered and in the rain at the time, before he told me if I wanted it to come and get it. It's a shame, but now the cabinet is falling apart around the innerds. 
If we can get the radio and phono to work, I'll build a mock cabinet(as close to ariginal as I can) to house the relic. We have figured out most of the wiring due to the minute pieces left sticking out of the plugs and such. Where we are running in to problems is hooking up the phono. We have a cloth covered coaxil cable coming off the phono and one also coming off the chassis, but the two of them don't match in color or size. Not finding any other wires of this type coming out of the chassis, this has us stumped. I did get a copy of the scimattics off the internet but the wiring diagram might as well be greek...lol. I do have a photo fact pamphlet on the way. As you can probably tell, this is the first project of this nature I have tried to tackle. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also, being a greenhorn in these old radios, I've been reading some other posts and hearing alot about cleaning out "can caps" and "tar boats". Would you be kind enough to enlighten me on what they are, what they look like, and if they are a concern on this philco? I'm not really looking for restoring the value of this peice. I like antiques and this would be a great addition to my basement bar( wife calls it my "Man Cave"...lol) if we can get it going. Thanks, Jim.
If we can get the radio and phono to work, I'll build a mock cabinet(as close to ariginal as I can) to house the relic. We have figured out most of the wiring due to the minute pieces left sticking out of the plugs and such. Where we are running in to problems is hooking up the phono. We have a cloth covered coaxil cable coming off the phono and one also coming off the chassis, but the two of them don't match in color or size. Not finding any other wires of this type coming out of the chassis, this has us stumped. I did get a copy of the scimattics off the internet but the wiring diagram might as well be greek...lol. I do have a photo fact pamphlet on the way. As you can probably tell, this is the first project of this nature I have tried to tackle. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also, being a greenhorn in these old radios, I've been reading some other posts and hearing alot about cleaning out "can caps" and "tar boats". Would you be kind enough to enlighten me on what they are, what they look like, and if they are a concern on this philco? I'm not really looking for restoring the value of this peice. I like antiques and this would be a great addition to my basement bar( wife calls it my "Man Cave"...lol) if we can get it going. Thanks, Jim.
