09-14-2015, 10:31 AM
It is not rare or expensive but could be a beautiful piece. Missing tubes are replaceable. Speaker could be tested and patched (cheap) or refined (not cheap).
40-s Philco have rubber coated wires rot away, so yes, this is the PM least pleasant part. But this is a small radio do not too many wires.
Power cords almost never survive anyway.
I cannot say yay or nay, it is your decision to make. For many people any radio that has enough to start with is worth restoring. If however you plan to ever sell it, it will be money loss no matter what.
40-s Philco have rubber coated wires rot away, so yes, this is the PM least pleasant part. But this is a small radio do not too many wires.
Power cords almost never survive anyway.
I cannot say yay or nay, it is your decision to make. For many people any radio that has enough to start with is worth restoring. If however you plan to ever sell it, it will be money loss no matter what.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
