11-05-2015, 12:31 AM
Hi Hal, I somehow missed this post - but your first post reads much like I was thinking when I first started looking for info for the 89B I have... there aren't too many chassis photos out there, and most of them seem very small or blurry. And I quickly ascertained that I couldn't ascertain the run number for my one... so decided to push it through to the second-to-last run on Rons history of the 89 here http://www.philcoradio.com/tech/89evol.htm just because I want to use this as a 'daily driver' once its finished. I would have gone to the last, but I didn't have a 350k switched pot, so left it with the on-off switch on the band selector but left enough wire to change it later if I find one.
There is another 89 on the forum at the moment, and I made some comments there about what I would do if I was just wanting to get it up and running - it might be worth a look: http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=13400
And my rebuild thread is here http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=12777
There is also a range of photos from the first look through to a finished (mostly) chassis in my Photobucket account - you can access that here: http://s241.photobucket.com/user/4wdstuf...Code%20123
The photos should be high enough resolution for you to see what it started as, and the process I went through. If you can't see them clearly (photobucket is not the easiest site to navigate - I'm not fond of it, but its handy) then I would be happy to send a CD or USB key over to you with the photos on it or just move them to a big zip file online that you could download. They were very helpful to refer back to when I was reassembling mine... but I did go a little mad on the rebuild
Performance-wise, I've been very happy with it. I live out in the country but can get a good range of local(ish) stations without an aerial... adding a very short piece of wire to the ant clip almost doubled the volume of those stations... I have not tried it with my long-line aerial yet but I'm expecting to be able to listen to overseas stations easily at night with it (even though the SW band is very limited).
My cabinet is still trashed... I'm still figuring out what to do there. Are you able to post some photos of yours?
Cheers
Steve
There is another 89 on the forum at the moment, and I made some comments there about what I would do if I was just wanting to get it up and running - it might be worth a look: http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=13400
And my rebuild thread is here http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=12777
There is also a range of photos from the first look through to a finished (mostly) chassis in my Photobucket account - you can access that here: http://s241.photobucket.com/user/4wdstuf...Code%20123
The photos should be high enough resolution for you to see what it started as, and the process I went through. If you can't see them clearly (photobucket is not the easiest site to navigate - I'm not fond of it, but its handy) then I would be happy to send a CD or USB key over to you with the photos on it or just move them to a big zip file online that you could download. They were very helpful to refer back to when I was reassembling mine... but I did go a little mad on the rebuild
Performance-wise, I've been very happy with it. I live out in the country but can get a good range of local(ish) stations without an aerial... adding a very short piece of wire to the ant clip almost doubled the volume of those stations... I have not tried it with my long-line aerial yet but I'm expecting to be able to listen to overseas stations easily at night with it (even though the SW band is very limited).
My cabinet is still trashed... I'm still figuring out what to do there. Are you able to post some photos of yours?
Cheers
Steve
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