[Ron Ramirez]

I just won an auction for this Philco 116B late version cabinet.

However, I lost the auction for the matching chassis and speaker.

What to do?

Hmmm...

I have a restorable 665 chassis in the basement. The chassis is the same size as a 116 chassis.

Looks like this will become a custom one-off 665B (Philco never made a 660B or 665B in 1936).

Sacrilege? Perhaps. But this way, a more or less complete radio is made out of pieces. I think if I place something inside the cabinet mentioning the set is a hybrid, no real harm is done. And, best of all, it is completely reversible.

I've done it before. A good friend now owns a 665X that has a 116B chassis in it. (Yeah, maybe I could fix up the 665 chassis and offer him a trade...)

And I am about to ship out a 16B cathedral that has a 116 chassis in it. Custom-made at the request of a client.

Another project on the back burner is a Model 32B tombstone cabinet I have, which I plan to mate up with a Model 89 chassis. (Edit: It isn't an "unused" chassis...it was pulled from an old console. Poor choice of words on my part.)

Your comments, thoughts, flames, etc., etc. ...???