{"id":1358,"date":"2018-09-26T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/?page_id=1358"},"modified":"2018-09-26T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T03:55:17","slug":"focusing-a-philco-newer-style-shadowmeter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/shop-talk\/techniques\/focusing-a-philco-newer-style-shadowmeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing a Philco (newer style) shadowmeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>[Contributed by\u00a0Randal (Texasrocker)]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After carefully reading the valuable info on adjusting the Philco (newer style) shadowmeters on Chucks site, I tore into adjusting the one on my Philco 37-630 chassis. The chassis has been completely electronically restored, and all left to do was final &#8220;tweaking&#8221; of the original shadowmeter. After rebuilding the lamp socket to assure no shorts of the #44 lamp, I installed a new lamp and proceeded. Since I didn&#8217;t want the &#8220;bulky&#8221; escutcheon ( already attached to cabinet) during the &#8220;focusing&#8221; procedure that has the old yellowed plastic, I used a 2-mil pc of &#8220;frosted&#8221; privacy window film instead, since pro window films is my primary business anyways, and I had a scrap piece to try. It worked Great!! Point being, the &#8220;shadowmeter&#8221; must have something in front of the metal housing to &#8220;see&#8221; the shadow from the vane to be &#8220;focused&#8221; onto!! I even experimented with white-paper over front of the housing, and that worked also, but was a bit harder to see the focus. I figure a small pc of translucent-waxpaper would suffice also, and allow the shadowmeter to be fully-focused before re-attaching it via the escutcheon holding clips. Worked for me! I found I had to bend the lamp-socket holding bracket attached to the shadowmeter to produce the full rectangular light-view, then, by moving the shadowmeter coil from front to rear, and rotating the coil for best correct ( according to Riders specs) setting the &#8220;image&#8221; on my temporary plastic, I aligned the shadowmeter perfectly after just a few tries, before attaching it to the escutcheon!! After final adjustments, I clipped the shadowmeter to the escutcheon, It was a &#8220;dead-on&#8221; perfect adjustment, and it allowed me to &#8220;focus&#8221; the shadowmeter, without it being attached to the Philco escutcheon period. Just wanted to share my info here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Contributed by\u00a0Randal (Texasrocker)] After carefully reading the valuable info on adjusting the Philco (newer style) shadowmeters on Chucks site, I tore into adjusting the one on my Philco 37-630 chassis. The chassis has been completely electronically restored, and all left to do was final &#8220;tweaking&#8221; of the original shadowmeter. After rebuilding the lamp socket to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1317,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}