The PHILCO Phorum

This is the parts set I bought and decided to rehab it. Have been slowly working on the cabinet in the background. It was about as bad as the first one but didn't have the deep scratches all over it. Here's some picks as found.

So far I've just about got the top ready to go back together and have plugged the hole in the front. There was a lot repairing tongue and groove joints as they were broken apart down the left side and on the top.
The top center section you can see from the back and top that the grooves are cracked in 4 places. Work is somewhat laborious gluing small narrow strips of veneer to the tongues to rebuild them. Oh and some delamanation to the front panel.

Was a little burned out from the last 16B so have been taking it easy on this one. Haven't done much at all w/the chassis. Spkr has no paper so Rich will be getting it in the future.

is this the one from eBay?
$153 +$130 shipping?

No I'm not rich I think it was $65+shpng.

I think I've got all the delamantion and missing plies glued back together. Top is back on and the two veneer sections are replaced. This cabinet unlike the 1st one had several shims between the center and intermediate panels. Those need a little leveling and the contour of the center panel need a little adjustment. Almost done with the major wood repairs then I can move on to chip and ding repairs/refinishing.

This isn't so much about the refinishing (haven't done any on it in a while) but a bit on it's history. After I got the chassis working I noticed the dial had some marking in ink on it. One was the callsign KXRX. After a quick lookup the station held that call from 1948 thru 82 and was located in San Jose CA. So there is a good likelihood that the set was sold in California and made the trek back out here to the east coast at some point.

>The Philco 16B2 has a hole thru the front panel (for a tuning shaft) but it has a nice worn patina. It has a decal from Sherman Clay & Co. It was a west coast based (SF) piano company starting out in the 1870. During the '30s they supplemented there sales by offering radios. Have seen a picture of their showroom w/ a display of late '20s /early '30s RCA sets.  As time marched on they branch to a number of stores throughout the US. By 2013 the company is owned by Sherman Clay Group a diverse company involved in real estate management and consumer finance. Anyway I digress...<

Just call me Sherlock Ohms...

How 'bout Mega Hurts in Kilocycles? With the Maxwell Silver Hammer?

Hi Terry

To have the skills to restore that 16b to like-new condition is a rich man!

Merry Christmas
Paul

If you want to put the Sherman Clay decal back onto the cabinet during restoration, for historical sake, there are water decals available. I saw them on a piano restoration parts site...

One day Sherlock Ohms met Sherlock Mhos. They shook hands and annihilated.
The off-springs of Sherlock Mhos changed their last name to Siemens.

Brad Winder Wrote:If you want to put the Sherman Clay decal back...there are water decals available. I saw them on a piano restoration parts site...

Please post a link; this will be helpful to others. Thanks.

Morzh  It was Siemens that made the offspring of Sherlock Mhos even though there was resistance from Sherlock Ohms!

Their relations are so...complicated. Why can't they be like the Curie family? Four people, four Nobel prize winners. And no annihilations!