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Dear Friends,
I'm looking for a grille cloth for a Philco 84.
Where can I find a grille cloth like this? I put some pictures of the old grille of my radio.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7295...o1post.JPG]
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7295...o2post.JPG]
Thank you,
Carlos Sempere
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I would look for upholstery that looks similar. Vintage grill cloth prices are ridiculous.
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Radio Daze seems to be reproducing the Philco Model 70, 90 grill cloth which appears to be what you have. Here is a link:
http://www.radiodaze.com/product/40030.aspx
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That works out to $108/yard BTW.
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I used this on my Model 90, not original but close, looks good, and decent price.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Grill-Clot...3cce0ca1fb
Here is what it looks like on the 90:
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http://wl.filegenie.com/~yowboy/yow90.JPG]
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The stuff at Radio Daze is about the right color, but that is it. Too bad, that pattern was used an a lot of other radios as well.
And, like I said before, nice cat. Looks like our Wooly.
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Phlogiston.)
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I'm sorry but that doesn't look right to me at all. In these days of 3D printing there has got to be a way to get these right. Most of the "vintage grill cloth" on eBay is nothing more than repurposed stock fabric. I had to buy a double order of this one, which really looks like it would be more at home on a chair than on the front of a radio:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...0970742909 It was the only fabric I could find with a diamond pattern, but since it is called grille cloth, it goes for over $100 a running yard.
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2013, 08:07 AM by
audiomagnate.)
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The guy selling that is a running joke around here anyhow. I nicknamed him "Foggy" because every make and model of radio he refinishes gets the same two tone treatment, like a cheap guitar from K-Mart, and crappy upholstery cloth in the speaker grilles. To make matters worse he then sets his team of shill bidders to work on anything he has for sale.
Regards
Arran
