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Found this yesterday. The cabinet is really nice
Indeed. Very nice looking radio. I like this style a bit better than 4x-x80 style.
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Those don't seem the show up very often.
Time to stock up on plastic wire and output transformers.
It's missing all of the station labels. Anyone well them, or do people make their own out of some sort of plastic?
I thought the labels were paper slips?

When I had MS word one could print yellow letters with brown background.

One should still be able to do that. Choose a rugged paper that won't bleed, use ink jet but I have done it with color laser.

FWIK Libre-Office will do the same thing...

There was a thin piece of celluloid over the paper label. Plastic cut from a bottle or a piece of PEEK plastic from an art store or possibly McMaster-Carr.

That way one can have modern stations for the inserts.

I suppose any color combination, if one wished...

Oh, very nice radio too Icon_smile

GL

Chas
That's a much nicer cabinet than the typical Philco offering of that era.
I saw one of those 3 months ago on CL but passed. It stayed listed there until about a week or 2 ago when I decided I liked it and messaged the seller. They said it sold 3 months ago, Icon_lol

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