The PHILCO Phorum

1. When having bought the 37-116 I received a "mixed bag of goodies" with it that contains amongst other stuff a long strip of felt.

I suspect it goes around the speaker but wanted to ask those who had restored same or similar radios in the past whether it is in fact true, and how do you secure it to the circumference - do you glue it or how is it dealt with at all?

Or is it something else? (The speaker was in the cabinet when I got it but the strip wasn't , and the speaker was secured by only one big bolt and one wood screw).

2. Have bunch of grommets, mostly silicon. Some are still soft, some started to crack.
There is a pair of a thick one, about 2/3" with large diameterindent and then a through hole, and another pair of thinner ones, about 1/4", with same type indent and a through hole, and then simple 1/4" round ones with a through hole.....

Where do they go?

The wooden horizontal support bars for the chassis inside the cabinet have two pairs of round milled out dimples, each one consisting of two overlapping circles of two different diameters, and I suspect some flatter grommets go in there, but I could use precise info.


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Anyone knows this?

on my 38-116 the felt strip was glued to the speaker board around hole for the speaker.

Thanks Vinzer, that confirms my suspicion. So glue it I will.
I think some fabric glue should be OK.

Now there is still that question of grommets' arrangement.

Don't know about those my 38-116 has a different chassis mount than a 37-116.

OK.

As for the felt, it is so dirty and crusty with old glue....I just found some felt stripping in Lowes, so I am off to the store...hopefully it is the right size. I thought of weatherstripping but that is not so soft as the felt I have.

The felt stripping I thought of proved to be very thin and narrower than I though.
I found felt weather stripping but this also was very thin and very wide.

So I found regular rubber foam weather stripping that was very close in both width and thickness, and it is self-adhesive so no gluing headache.....and the compression degree is about adequate, so it sticks out enough and gets some compression when the speaker is installed.

I put the photos of the grommets (or washers?) in the main 37-116 topic.