07-05-2015, 10:18 PM
This Philco 640 has been sitting around for at least 2 years because I screwed it up, that's right I Fred Taylor screwed it up, and I know that the can on back isn't suppose to be army green, will fix that later. It was a basket case when I got it and I had to bead blast the chassis , in doing so I took off the tuning condenser and when I put everything back together I soldered a cap in the wrong place on coil . Therefor it would not pick up anything but audio was good, it took a lot of trouble shooting for a friend of mine to figure out what was wrong, we would look at it then put away, look at it put it away , so it sat . Last week Mike looked again and then found problem 
. The cabinet was refinished last year by yours truly and was done wrong so I had to redo that as well. Its a push pull but one side of transformer isn't working but sounds very good with one side working, may replace it at later time. We have so much time invested so far it isn't funny, at one point I was going to leave it alone and keep it as a shelve queen 
But is plays good on all bands but lacks the push pull performance sound . Im surprised how well it sounds with one tube running 
. The cabinet was refinished last year by yours truly and was done wrong so I had to redo that as well. Its a push pull but one side of transformer isn't working but sounds very good with one side working, may replace it at later time. We have so much time invested so far it isn't funny, at one point I was going to leave it alone and keep it as a shelve queen But is plays good on all bands but lacks the push pull performance sound . Im surprised how well it sounds with one tube running 
