The PHILCO Phorum

I could resist hitting the $39 BIN on this blonde AM/FM Motorola circa 1948.








It's been partially recapped in the recent past judging by the caps used. It works fine on AM but only got sound for one brief instance on FM. Wonder why they didn't replace all the paper caps ?


Not only does it look nice on it's own, it's also a great match with my 1948 blonde VT-71

Congrats Bob! A real beauty.

Thanks. I'm amazed at how nice the plastic dial is - no warping at all

That is one NICE unit! The design, clean condition, and it being AM/FM would have me hitting the "buy me now" button also. Very cool radio! Thanks for showing us.

Craig R.

Does that have the permability tuning?

Great looking radio!

Mike

Yes, for the FM band there are three ganged slugs that move in and out of coils. Here's a closer look.


Finally, here it is powered up. Turns out the FM band works fine. Problem was I had the variac turned down to 105 VAC Brought it up to 117 and the FM started working fine.

Great find Bob, looks like a really nice radio!

- Geoff

Not my cup of tea, but a neat set! I especially liked the TV and radio together.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Blond-Wo...5af7fca42d

Bob- here is another one for you....

I have that radio in Mahogany, but a blonde would be nice too.

Ya know, they ARE pretty neat lookin'........

Since it's a post war set the chances are that they used an improved plastic for the dial so warping an shrinkage is less of a possibility. You see this with pre war verses post war Philco sets that used that rectangular combination dial escutcheon and speaker grille, the post war ones do not shrink, crack, or warp unless abused.
Regards
Arran

Bob

Interesting that you included the photo of the 56T21 here. It reminded me that I also have one of those in Walnut and one in Blonde. I should probably dispose of the Blonde model sometime.

G.