[kiwi_steve]

Thanks Steve.

Yep same as mine from what I can see.  I see you have no wave trap or A.E. connector.  Did it come to you without them.?

From what I can tell mine never had the wavetrap - there isn't even scratching on the chassis from a bolt head where it would have been... and the plate over the AE connector looks factory - it does have the Fahnestock clips topside though.

Nice and clean underneath, Mine is a rusty rats nest mess.  Have a look at what I have woken up to for the past year. Its going to be a total strip down and restoration for mine. Still I am going to really enjoy doing it.  Don't ye just  these things.

Actually I do - looks like a couple of the radios I've done in the last couple of years including the 89B which was about my first ever post on here - although that was not quite as rusty as your one.  Joys of living and collecting near the coast

When I restored the 98 series 2 which had a 640B chassis (Thanks again Ron) I re- stuffed those Cap blocks but this time I think I will leave the old caps inside and top mount the new ones.  Who knows but maybe someone in another 70 years might be interested in the looking at the originals eh.

Interesting theory... I just don't like the look of caps mounted on the blocks - and it makes it confusing.  I still remember the utter mind-bending confusion I went through with the 89B (my first Philco and the oldest radio I'd ever done at the time).  I'd like to see a T-Rex - but not up close... I'm ok with a photo in a book  

Steve. Where did ye get those corner rubbers mine are perished to bits same as yours were and can I ask you where did you get the schematics mine are the ould John Riders bless him but they are quite smudgy.

The rubber parts came from Renovated Radios - I see he now has the correct(?) spider-style tuning knobs for this models too.  There is a rubber bumper on the front of the chassis which looks like it could be part# GPH-18 on his list, and the corners are part# PHS-COR.  I had a problem with my second (first was for the 89B - all went well there) order - I don't know if this is common but I paid then heard nothing and had to jump through a few hoops including opening a dispute with PayPal to get it sorted.  I don't know what the actual problem was aside from being told PayPal never released my payment although they took it from me - but the parts did eventually get here... and they seem pretty good.  His communication was pretty good too.

The schematic and all other service info for this came from Chuck Schwark (Philco Repair Bench).  Legendary service, a great guy... I'd have been lost on this radio without what he supplied.  Actually I'm still a little lost in the RF section, but I'd have been a lot more lost  

The dial on mine is in super condition. one little nick on the rim. The part number is 27-9054.  Am I correct in reading yours as 27-5083 Mine also has "Synthane Corp" stamped on it as the manufacturer.

It looks like an 8 in the photo but its a 9... 27-5093.  This is the same part number as Radio Daze has on their repro dial, but theirs is yellow and has slightly different graphics around the hub.  Ron mentioned that the red dials appeared (only?) in 1935, randomly, on some models... there is no documented reason for it apparently - possibly due to yellow phenolic shortages?  If only there Philco employees from 1935 still alive... why did nobody think to ask them in the 60's and 70's when there probably were still a few of them about the place?  Makes me wonder who we should be interviewing now, and about what?

Cheers

Steve

PS:  I still have this RF problem... posted over at the other forum as well and was given some hints but I just can't find anything wrong with it... it just won't peak on Police or BC - but I can peak the SW band.  Interestingly the BC and Police trimmers are on the same assembly.  The wire running around the central column ties both trimmer assemblies together, and this is well soldered and not broken.

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Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated