12-14-2014, 05:29 PM
It's not bad, really. Now, the topside of the chassis is pretty grungy, with a rust spot or two. I have not yet decided how to go about cleaning it.
I haven't touched the radio in a couple days, but today I cooked all of the old paper caps in a recent acquisition - a used toaster oven. I left a few in too long and they became burned on the ends; otherwise, this process worked well.
Each cap was removed from the oven, one by one, and the old "guts" removed and the outer shells wiped off.
I then restuffed them with new capacitors.
Here they are - yes, there are more here than in the last picture, as I "cooked" some extras for the next project:
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00005.jpg]
The next job is to start replacing the wires that have rubber insulation (in short: all of them). Well, there will be a few solder terminals where wires connect that I will not be able to reach with my soldering gun; these will get resleeved with heat shrink tubing instead. I'll also be replacing resistors as I replace wires. The next job after that will be replacing wires on both IF transformers, followed by restuffing the electrolytics, installing the restuffed paper capacitors, installing a new power cord, and finally, installing new dial cord.
This set is missing its dial pointer, so I will have to see if I have something suitable to use as a replacement.
I haven't touched the radio in a couple days, but today I cooked all of the old paper caps in a recent acquisition - a used toaster oven. I left a few in too long and they became burned on the ends; otherwise, this process worked well.
Each cap was removed from the oven, one by one, and the old "guts" removed and the outer shells wiped off.
I then restuffed them with new capacitors.
Here they are - yes, there are more here than in the last picture, as I "cooked" some extras for the next project:
[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00005.jpg]
The next job is to start replacing the wires that have rubber insulation (in short: all of them). Well, there will be a few solder terminals where wires connect that I will not be able to reach with my soldering gun; these will get resleeved with heat shrink tubing instead. I'll also be replacing resistors as I replace wires. The next job after that will be replacing wires on both IF transformers, followed by restuffing the electrolytics, installing the restuffed paper capacitors, installing a new power cord, and finally, installing new dial cord.
This set is missing its dial pointer, so I will have to see if I have something suitable to use as a replacement.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
