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Philco Skyscraper 40-190 find
#1

Found this yesterday. The cabinet is really nice


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#2

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

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#3

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

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
#4

It's missing all of the station labels. Anyone well them, or do people make their own out of some sort of plastic?
#5

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 Icon_smile

GL

Chas

Pliny the younger
“nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat”
#6

That's a much nicer cabinet than the typical Philco offering of that era.
#7

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, Icon_lol

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