[MarkBardenwerper]

Hello,
Haven't posted for a while. I just ran across a neat little console that resembles a sitting bench. It has a black vinyl pad on top and two fake drawers on front. Inside is AM/FM radio and 4 speed record changer. It is in rather nice condition for its age. So far, I have touched up the finish, reattached one of the speaker grilles and lubed the phono. The radio works and I have not tested the record player yet, aside from the fact that it started sluggishly before I pulled and lubed it. The tire is nice and soft, so I think I have a good chance of having a runner.

I would like to know what model it is so I can get a new stylus for it. It looks as if it has a good needle on it, but it would be nice to start fresh.

[MarkBardenwerper]

Hmmm,
No bites. I wonder if I am fishing in the wrong pond.

I know this unit is "new" compared to what we are into here for the most part, but after all, all of our stuff was new once and it was rearged as junk for so many years, it is amazing that some of our stuff has survived at all. Good on us. I still have my 41-295 sitting here ready to to to he next level. Unfortuantely I was just diagnosed with Parkinson's and it looks as if my soldering days are behind me.

Back onto the subject of this interesting "new" machine, I rebuilt the phono and it is working well and it is closed up and put away. It lacks a tweeter on one channel. I still would like to know what model it is.

Let's try this approach: if I had some way of knowing what other models used this tweeter, I might be able of seach for one of them and do some scavenging.

The part number for the tweeter is 36-1714-2. Does anyone have a way of knowning what else it was used in?

[Ron Ramirez]

Sorry,

No idea on the model number. And regarding the tweeters, the only way anyone could answer which other models used the same tweeter part number would be to have a stack of 1960s Philco service information, or a complete set of SAMS Photofacts. I have neither. Maybe someone with a set of SAMS through the 1960s, and with enough spare time to look through potentially dozens of 1960s Philco schematics, could help?

That is an unusual design.

I've been thinking for some time now that 1950s-60s-early 1970s hi-fi and stereo gear are becoming the "new" antique radios. Unfortunately, by the 1960s, Philco electronics were mostly crap compared to higher end high fidelity gear such as The Fisher (while Avery still owned the company), Harman Kardon, H.H. Scott, Marantz, and the Japanese "upstarts" such as Sansui and Pioneer. This fact, I think, will affect current and future collectibilty of these items.

A prime example of crappy stereo gear: Morse Electrophonic. I seriously doubt there will ever be a large demand for that brand...assuming the remaining cabinets do not fall apart from their own poor quality in the next 50 years.

[MarkBardenwerper]

I appreciate your reply. These factors, coupled with the fact that they began losing the competition for living room space with TV's, added to the decline of this form of entertainment system. Nowadays, if they survive ignominious  basement status at estate sales or the unceremonious trip to the curb or dumpster, they wind up gutted, with parts going to China and the rest to the burning pit.

I cruised St. Vinnie's and Bethesda today and they no longer are interested in selling or taking electronics. Good Will happily takes them, then off they go by western boat, missing the sales floor. I anticipate a complete vacuum when the time comes for these to be of antique age.

The real reason I bought it was so I could get my Edison Diamond Disk upright back away from my grandkids in trade for something I might get them more interested in. It's an attempt to get a new generation into phonos and records. I would like them to take some of the 78's I have accumulated off my hands. Who needs two feet of Bing? They might get a kick out of listening to some White Album or maybe Eat A Peach. Definitely not the scratchy copy of Oklahoma I used as a test record. 'Course, Rock 'N Roll may in fact be deader'n swing.

[Joe Rossi]

There's gotta be a model number somewhere. The receiver and turntable layout looks like my brothers old Zenith console. Find a model number, we can look for a scematic. Joe

[MarkBardenwerper]

I took the back off and I see a almost every part has a Philco part number. But alas, no model number. Does anyone know where I could find a catalog? Seems a shame that something this new should be part of forgotten history.