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Newbie here, having trouble navigating this is the first place ive seen I can write or post. I have a 39-80B Philco. it was purchased as the family Christmas present in 1939 my grand father was born December 1939. I have always wanted to put it back into working order it is battery powered and the wiring is in very bad condition I believe all tubes are present their condition is unknown. The cabinet is in remarkable shape for its age and I have no desire for the cabinet to be altered. I am in Star Tannery Va, about an hour from Washington dc. I'm not rich by any means but would be over joyed to have this back in working order. Thanks
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Welcome to the Phorum!
I moved your post to its own thread. I think what you are asking is whether there is someone in the Va/DC area that would be able to restore the chassis for your radio. If you are thinking of restoring it yourself, we'll move this to the electronic restoration section and you can get plenty of help from folks as you work on it. Either way...welcome.
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Hi and welcome,
Just finished up the cabinet on my 39-80, did the chassis a while back.
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=17464
see post 7.
If you want to get it going I'd start w/getting a few spools of different colors of plastic covered wire to rewire the battery cable. Something like this
http://www.radiodaze.com/whst-22all-8-co...-22all-25/ For more info we should move down to the Restoration section.
I was surprised to hear how loud it plays for a battery set. About half of the weigh of the set is in the spkr. It has a large magnet making it pretty efficient. By running it on dry cells you eliminate the rf noise that is on the ac house wiring.
GL
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
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thanks for the info, I would like to think I can do this on my own as im mechanically inclined and it dosent seem to be rocket science. I can replace the wires easily enough on my own. My next question would be I guess where do I get or how do I build a battery?
Thanks in advance
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When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
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City: Wilsonville
State, Province, Country: OR
ST, you will be able to get lots of help and advice as you restore the chassis and battery. Radioroslyn (Terry) is very skilled as are many others and can talk you through it. Since you are going to give this a go yourself, I'll move the thread to the Electronic Restoration section. Do some reading before you begin. You will need to replace the paper and electrolytic capacitors in the set in addition to that bad wiring. Its not that difficult. Go slow, take pictures as you go along so you can put things back together again. Here's a good read for beginners:
https://www.antiqueradio.org/begin.htm
Here's the schematic on
Nostalgiaair.
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