01-21-2013, 04:45 PM
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the forum and also new to the wonderful world of vintage radio repair. I'm actually more of a collector and hobbyist of vintage Phonographs and Gramophones but I've recently purchased an old Philco console with a great phonograph hiding inside it. My plan is to completely
restore both the radio and the phonograph so I can enjoy my small collection of 78's without damaging them any further by using one of my gramophones.
Here's where the problems begin and the questions start...
I have no idea what the model number is for this radio except that the chassis number is 715A. When I search the internets for that model, the only thing I find is this great image http://www.radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=9172 which looks exactly like my radio (minus a different phonograph) and a few sites with 715P.
Either way, I've contacted a site which seems to carry many Canadian made radio schematics and they've told me they can only find a schematic for a 715. I have no idea if a 715 is a close match or what the radio even looked like as google has less information about this one than it did for mine.
I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction, or perhaps knows of a substitute for this model number so I can start the restoration.
I'd try removing and replacing the capacitors one at a time without the schematics but there appears to be two wires underneath that are not attached to anything and I'd like to know what belongs here. Perhaps this is why the phono isn't working?? (that and a bad motor)
Which brings me to my next question....
What have I got myself into? As if restoring old gramophones didn't consume enough of my time!!
Thanks Kindly,
Looking forward to posting more in the future....
Vince
I'm new to the forum and also new to the wonderful world of vintage radio repair. I'm actually more of a collector and hobbyist of vintage Phonographs and Gramophones but I've recently purchased an old Philco console with a great phonograph hiding inside it. My plan is to completely
restore both the radio and the phonograph so I can enjoy my small collection of 78's without damaging them any further by using one of my gramophones.
Here's where the problems begin and the questions start...
I have no idea what the model number is for this radio except that the chassis number is 715A. When I search the internets for that model, the only thing I find is this great image http://www.radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=9172 which looks exactly like my radio (minus a different phonograph) and a few sites with 715P.
Either way, I've contacted a site which seems to carry many Canadian made radio schematics and they've told me they can only find a schematic for a 715. I have no idea if a 715 is a close match or what the radio even looked like as google has less information about this one than it did for mine.
I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction, or perhaps knows of a substitute for this model number so I can start the restoration.
I'd try removing and replacing the capacitors one at a time without the schematics but there appears to be two wires underneath that are not attached to anything and I'd like to know what belongs here. Perhaps this is why the phono isn't working?? (that and a bad motor)
Which brings me to my next question....
What have I got myself into? As if restoring old gramophones didn't consume enough of my time!!
Thanks Kindly,
Looking forward to posting more in the future....
Vince
