04-25-2023, 09:14 PM
Welcome to the Phorum!
It looks like the label inside the chassis has it as a 620. The cabinet is in the style of the 625B. The 625 series was a mid-season revision of the 620 (see the gallery info). Philco would often use up all their existing chassis inventory even if they no longer had the cabinet to put them in. In this case it looks to me as though they used one of their remaining 620 radios and put it into the newer 625B cabinet.
You are right to not plug it in. You will need to replace the electrolytic and paper capacitors at a minimum and probably some of the resistors. Hopefully all transformers are still all ok. Tubes may well still be good but the only way to tell is to test them is another radio or a tube tester (unless its the filament that is bad and you can check that with an ohm meter).
That zither look pretty nice too!
It looks like the label inside the chassis has it as a 620. The cabinet is in the style of the 625B. The 625 series was a mid-season revision of the 620 (see the gallery info). Philco would often use up all their existing chassis inventory even if they no longer had the cabinet to put them in. In this case it looks to me as though they used one of their remaining 620 radios and put it into the newer 625B cabinet.
You are right to not plug it in. You will need to replace the electrolytic and paper capacitors at a minimum and probably some of the resistors. Hopefully all transformers are still all ok. Tubes may well still be good but the only way to tell is to test them is another radio or a tube tester (unless its the filament that is bad and you can check that with an ohm meter).
That zither look pretty nice too!
