Found this radio at the local flea market a couple weeks ago, luckily it was still there this afternoon and marked down on the price.[attachment=0]
Has some blemishes and over the past couple weeks someone poked and cracked the plastic dial cover which was perfect the first time I saw the radio. Something about the looks of this radio caught my eye.
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Assuming you bought it, congratulations! I've noticed some collectors call this one "The Sled" due to its styling.
I have one, and it's a great performer. Took a lot of work to get it to that point:
http://www.philcoradio.com/notebook/41226.htm
I still have not done anything about the hole in the right side of the cabinet.
You will enjoy yours, I have no doubt!
Ron Ramirez Wrote:Assuming you bought it, congratulations!
Yep! I bought it yesterday! That's the radio after I got it home. Back up to 27 Philcos in the collection. Hmmm, that's alot of Philcos and they just seem to keep coming out of the woodwork around here.
It's nice to see that the plastic bezel/grille combo is still in good shape, maybe they used a better mixture of Tenite on those sets then they did on the portables? As for Philcos coming out of the woodwork maybe you should investigate whether there was a local distributor nearby? Where I am both Philco and C.G.E had a regional distributor so there are lots of both around here. Even if there wasn't Philco was the largest manufacturer, by far, during the 1930s, that may have slipped a little by the early 40s but they were still building millions of radios every year, and what's more they were decently built so there are still lots that survived.
Regards
Arran
Ron, I am getter ready to begin work on my own 41-226 Sled. I have the Rider's for it, but I cannot read many of the tube numbers on the tubes, and the Rider's does not have a diagram of their physical layout.
Do you have a source for either a top view or bottom view layout drawing or photo?
Regards,
Clarence
(07-23-2011, 05:43 PM)Ron Ramirez Wrote: [ -> ]Assuming you bought it, congratulations! I've noticed some collectors call this one "The Sled" due to its styling.
I have one, and it's a great performer. Took a lot of work to get it to that point:
http://www.philcoradio.com/notebook/41226.htm
I still have not done anything about the hole in the right side of the cabinet.
You will enjoy yours, I have no doubt!
(05-04-2012, 06:27 AM)imacdaddy757 Wrote: [ -> ]Ron, I am getter ready to begin work on my own 41-226 Sled. I have the Rider's for it, but I cannot read many of the tube numbers on the tubes, and the Rider's does not have a diagram of their physical layout.
Do you have a source for either a top view or bottom view layout drawing or photo?
Regards,
Clarence
Thanks for your service info order.
And ask any and all restoration questions here in Ron's Phorum when you get started.
Regards,
Chuck
Clarence
If you ordered the service info package for your 41-226 from Chuck, it will have all of the available factory info for your set. I'm at work now so can't look, but I believe the factory data includes an under-chassis view, and may include an above the chassis view as well.
Great, Ron. I did order a set from Chuck, just today. It's a pretty neat radio that I found in a tiny junk store in Georgia, for 25 bucks. Plays but hums and has distortion. I won't play it again until I go through it.
(05-04-2012, 10:16 AM)Ron Ramirez Wrote: [ -> ]Clarence
If you ordered the service info package for your 41-226 from Chuck, it will have all of the available factory info for your set. I'm at work now so can't look, but I believe the factory data includes an under-chassis view, and may include an above the chassis view as well.
I just looked at the factory data for this set in the 1941 RMS Yearbook, and an under-chassis view is there, with the tube sockets labeled as to which tube goes in each socket.
You might find this page helpful as you go through your 41-226 Sled:
http://www.philcoradio.com/notebook/41226.htm
You will notice that there is an under-chassis diagram on the page in the link above (scroll down to the bottom to see it, it's on there twice). This one shows how to reconfigure the power switch so that the hot side of the line is switched rather than the neutral side.