{"id":3729,"date":"2024-02-10T06:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/?page_id=3729"},"modified":"2024-02-10T06:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:27:19","slug":"philco-model-65-repairs-part-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/shop-talk\/rons-radios\/philco-model-65-repairs-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Philco model 65 Repairs \u2013 Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was about to find out what the end result of two weeks of work on this Philco model 65 would be. I had rebuilt everything that could be rebuilt; replaced some wires; tested the tubes and replaced half of them. It had a new AC cord. It should be safe to operate.<\/p>\n

It was time to find out how safe it was, and whether or not it was going to work.<\/p>\n

First, I plugged the radio in and turned it on with no tubes in the set. I took voltage measurements. All seemed well. There was no smoke, no sizzling, nothing out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n

Then I pulled out the 87 speaker from my Philco 87 project which is currently on hold while I look for a power transformer for it. The 87 speaker was plugged into the 65 chassis. All tubes were installed. My outdoor longwire antenna was connected to the ANT terminal.<\/p>\n

Did it work?<\/p>\n

Watch for yourself and see\u2026<\/p>\n

(video)<\/p>\n

I noticed right away that this set goes into oscillations (squeals) if the volume control is turned up too high. I can\u2019t help but wonder if this is a characteristic of Model 65 sets, and if this is why they were only on the market for a few months before being replaced by Model 76?<\/p>\n

Other than that, I am very pleased with this radio which is eight years away from being 100 years old.<\/p>\n

The next thing to do is to get this chassis reinstalled in its metal cabinet. In the forthcoming final chapter of the model 65 saga, I will do that as well as examine its matching speaker to determine what needs to be done to it.<\/p>\n

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I was about to find out what the end result of two weeks of work on this Philco model 65 would be. I had rebuilt everything that could be rebuilt; replaced some wires; tested the tubes and replaced half of them. It had a new AC cord. It should be safe to operate. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2599,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3729\/revisions\/3745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcoradio.com\/library\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}