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Enjoying my Philco 'Sled'
#1

I've had this radio for a year or two and last night and today are the first times I have taken time to enjoy this little radio since I had it repaired. Really is a nice set.

   

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#3

I think that those use a six tube circuit with an extra IF amplifier stage so it's probably a decent performer. Though the escutcheon is pretty good on your set it's too bad that nobody is making reproductions to rescue all of these 1942 models that don't have good escutcheons.
Regards
Arran
#4

I agree. Most of these 1942 models I see have the badly shrunk (and often smelly) tennite plastic escutcheons. This one has warped a tiny bit, but appears to be made of a different plastic. Oops, this is a 1941 model I think. Anyways, I know what you mean. It is a six tube unit and picks up fairly well.

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#5

Oh, that escutcheon is Tenite, all right. (Hey, I'm a poet, and don't know it! Ha ha Icon_lol )

I also have a 41-226C, and its escutcheon is slightly warped. Great radio, very sensitive, good looking too. It was a real pain in the behind to restore, though.

I wrote up my experience in restoring my set here:
http://www.philcoradio.com/notebook/41226.htm

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
#6

Ok. The badly warped ones I usually see on these units are the lighter colored Tennite and it is usually quite bad. I have a rather rough Philco portable from the same year with the light colored stuff and it's pretty warped. That's why I thought this might be a different plastic. Seems the darker Tennite didn't warp quite as bad for some odd reason. (At least on the radios I have seen with it.)

No matter where you go, there you are.
#7

What recipes used for this plastic, assuming it is Tenite, varies greatly between one make and the next and one model and the next. The worst ones I have seen were used on Silvertone radios of the late 1930s, the best being used on RCA radios of the same time period. Even within Philco some items suffer more then others, the 8 pushbutton escutcheons used on the 41-280s were awful, sometimes they not only warp and crack but turn black and begin to disintegrate. On the other hand dials on the mystery controls and the plastic covers over the phonograph pickups on the beam of light changers, while they warp a bit, I haven't seen one that is total junk as yet. I guess the escutcheons used on these 41-266Cs were maybe more resistant to decay then the light brown ones because of the dye or filler used, more U.V resistant perhaps?
Regards
Arran




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