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Philco VTVM model 7001
#1

Thanks to Sam I found this really neat tester... She is a little worse for wear but she is complete minus the cables.
This little beast is a 4 tuber! That surprised me....
I will have to blast the cabinet and touch up the face paint for looks.
I think the missing tube is a 7Y4? The dial glass is gone also... 
I found this article online but no schematic...

http://www.frontiernet.net/~jff/Philco70..._VTVM.html

If anyone has the probes for this I would like to buy a set.

Here is what she looks like.


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Times I have been electrocuted in 2021
As of 1/01/2021
AC: 4 DC: 1
Last year: 6
#2

Yes you are missing the 7Y4, it's the low voltage rectifier. The connector has been changed the except a pl-259 connector (very common connector).  Most vtvm would have a length of shielded cable or coax  with a 1 meg resistor in series with the center conductor going to the tip of the probe. The black connector takes a banana type or pin type connector. The banana is a bit fatter, hard to tell from the pic.
RS used to carry these parts and still may I haven't been to one in a while.
The HV probe is going to take a little guess wurk. Most have a resistors inside the drop the voltage down before it gets to the meter. Your has a large resistor connected to the connector on the backside. When you get it working try measuring a relatively small voltage with it without any resistance in series and see what kind of reading you get. HV probes are big and look like a turkey baster with wires.

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
#3

hey kirk     
here`s great site for test equipment  free too Icon_thumbup

http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radio...co7001.pdf


http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radio...nuals.html

it`s me

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#4

Did you really just say "When you get it working" Icon_lol

I will try and thanks for the info and link

Me

Times I have been electrocuted in 2021
As of 1/01/2021
AC: 4 DC: 1
Last year: 6
#5

  Here is the one I picked up at the last radio swap meet.
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