03-21-2021, 09:16 PM
This thread will cover my electronic refurbishment of my recently acquired Philco 38-10. To see what the cabinet looks like look for my post about it in the March 2021 Finds and Losses thread. The cabinet is in amazing condition. The faux finish is virtually pristine! I am including one repeat picture from that thread which shows the back of the radio as I received it. There was a switch mounted back there...
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At first I thought it might be a quickie replacement for the on-off switch, but I was wrong. Turns out it is a phono input added long ago, probably no later than the 1950s from the look of the condensers used.
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I will certainly keep that input, since it forms a pert of the radio's history, and is also useful. I will actually re=stuff the condensers since they will be above the chassis this time and may be partially visible if someone looks from an angle. Beyond that, I pulled the chassis. The radio is mostly virgin. Beyond the phono input the only obvious repairs are the replacement of the filter condensers. These are also a long ago repair, one of them is labelled "Olson", and the other is labeled with just the initials G and a backwards L, which I don't recognize. Some of you, like me, will fondly remember the Olson Electronics catalogs.
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So, that is all I have done so far. I'll get deeper into it tomorrow.
[Image: https://64.media.tumblr.com/58a47a066234...441929.jpg]
At first I thought it might be a quickie replacement for the on-off switch, but I was wrong. Turns out it is a phono input added long ago, probably no later than the 1950s from the look of the condensers used.
[Image: https://64.media.tumblr.com/09f9c694f502...5bd9b2.jpg]
I will certainly keep that input, since it forms a pert of the radio's history, and is also useful. I will actually re=stuff the condensers since they will be above the chassis this time and may be partially visible if someone looks from an angle. Beyond that, I pulled the chassis. The radio is mostly virgin. Beyond the phono input the only obvious repairs are the replacement of the filter condensers. These are also a long ago repair, one of them is labelled "Olson", and the other is labeled with just the initials G and a backwards L, which I don't recognize. Some of you, like me, will fondly remember the Olson Electronics catalogs.
[Image: https://64.media.tumblr.com/b155117ce06f...1edea5.jpg]
So, that is all I have done so far. I'll get deeper into it tomorrow.
