The PHILCO Phorum

My Philco 60L returned home tonight. I had it given to me a while back and gave it to a friend for a while. Well, he decided to give it back to me and he started work on it before I got the whammy electric bill and work cut me to two days this week. Anyways, I mostly traded for the repairs which included recapping the unit, replacing the grill cloth with a presentable one off a 50's console that was junked out, finding a usable speaker, rewinding two of the coils, and replacing the knobs and the number 75 tube which decided to die right after the radio was repaired. Also the missing escutcheon was found jammed in front of the chassis.

Here is before:

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And now:

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I swapped out the 60L with the Atwater-Kent in my bedroom this morning. Definitely a better little console more suited to the smaller room. Performs quite well for a five tube radio.

The little 60 is a pretty good player. I've got one in a BG cabinet and a 66 in a moderne cabinet. The 60 as been working years and years. The 66 the cabinet is a mess and haven't had a chance to have a look at chassis. The 60 and 66 are kinda same but the 66 has much better SW coverage.
Terry

I should try and track donw a 60 Baby Grand to go with my console now! Once I get some money back ahead. I'll have to look up the 66 and see what it looks like. I know I've been playing the heck out of my 60L since I got it home last night and am tracking down some spare tubes out of my stash just in case one decides it has had enough.

Very nice I noticed your escutcheon and knobs are a different (earlier?) style than mine. Your cabinet looks to have higher quality veneer too.

Really neat, Jayce!

Bob, the 60L remained in production through the 1935 season, so since yours has the bakelite escutcheon and hex knobs, it was produced during the '35 season but after the switch from a brass escutcheon to bakelite. And it's the small escutcheon, so it was probably produced sometime between the summer of '34 and the end of December '34.

The friend who repaired mine said he saw a stamp on the chassis or original speaker that said '1934'. If that is true mine was probably produced early that year. It's just nice to have it back together again and I do still have the original speaker with hopes of having it reconed someday. It was ripped to shreds.

I posted the before and after pictures of this radio on my Facebook page and today I have had coworkers stop me to compliment the radio and my friend's work on it. The 60L has become my daily driver console in my bedroom. The entire family here in the house seems to really like it.

It is always super when they turn out swell, enjoy it. Hope it brightens things up for the rest of the winter.

Paul