Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - Printable Version

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Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - rdnzl - 07-13-2019

Found this yesterday. The cabinet is really nice

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - morzh - 07-13-2019

Indeed. Very nice looking radio. I like this style a bit better than 4x-x80 style.

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - Radioroslyn - 07-13-2019

+1
Those don't seem the show up very often.
Time to stock up on plastic wire and output transformers.

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - rdnzl - 07-13-2019

It's missing all of the station labels. Anyone well them, or do people make their own out of some sort of plastic?

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - Chas - 07-13-2019

I thought the labels were paper slips?

When I had MS word one could print yellow letters with brown background.

One should still be able to do that. Choose a rugged paper that won't bleed, use ink jet but I have done it with color laser.

FWIK Libre-Office will do the same thing...

There was a thin piece of celluloid over the paper label. Plastic cut from a bottle or a piece of PEEK plastic from an art store or possibly McMaster-Carr.

That way one can have modern stations for the inserts.

I suppose any color combination, if one wished...

Oh, very nice radio too

GL

Chas

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - John Bartley - 07-14-2019

That's a much nicer cabinet than the typical Philco offering of that era.

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RE: Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find - OldRestorer - 07-14-2019

I saw one of those 3 months ago on CL but passed. It stayed listed there until about a week or 2 ago when I decided I liked it and messaged the seller. They said it sold 3 months ago,

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