Philco 70 Cathedral Speaker
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/251733986102
Better grab it quick if you need it...$42.99 Buy It Now...these speakers usually sell for double that price on the auction site.
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I see the chassis is also up for sale seperately. http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-Philco-r...3a9c719fb4. I thought about buying it but I'm afraid the o/t will be bad and still have to replace cone.
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I saw that yesterday and decided not to post it here....the reasons being
1: cone is done for. Those do not repair well, brittle paper, will have to go.
2. There were no statements as to the field coil and transformer integrity, and each one can be a 50-80 bucks if you pay someone to do it.
And unlike the 20 speaker, feld coil repair is a pain as the pole is pressed in.
So this speaker restored can become 2-3 times the price you would pay for a working one.
I have one, that I got with the chassis for 15 bucks. Still haven't brought myself to restore it. Though so far no need.
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Sometimes you just have to take a chance
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You gotta ask yourself a question:
'Do I feel lucky?'
...Well, do ya, punk?
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This is one of the reasons why I haven't bothered doing anything with the Philco 90 chassis I have sitting in the basement as yet, unless I find a cabinet with speaker or a slightly rough 90 with same. When you see complete project 90s sell for under $300 but see people pay that much for a speaker with a rough cone, plus shipping, it doesn't make any sense to try piecing a set together from parts. Those were pretty lousy sounding speakers to begin with, the only reason to buy one is to make an authentic factory correct set, for much less then that one could pick up a period Utah, a Magnavox, or a Lansing speaker of the same size, and similar electrical specs, in decent shape. With a Philco 70 this is even more so, there are twice as many 70s as there are 90s out there, and three times as many 20s as there are 90s, all used similar pie pan speakers, except the ones from model 20s had that large nut holding the pole piece in place as Mike (Morzh) stated.
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For all these three times as many 20s how come I see plenty of 90 and 70 in decent shapes and I cannot seem to find a plain 20 anywhere?
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That's odd, whenever I run into a Philco cathedral in my region, it's usually a model 20 in the "plain brown wrapper" version, I have yet to see a Deluxe version with the quilted maple arch. I saw on on fleabay just tonight, though it may be outside of driving distance to where you are. But in terms of overall production I believe that Philco built 343,000 Baby Grand style model 20s, , I'm not sure what the production numbers were for each version though. There were three console versions, two with just the radio and a third that also had a phonograph, the radio-phono console version is the rarest obviously.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1930s-AR...rkt%3D4%26
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From the ebay description " I POWER IT ON ONCE FAINT LIGHT IN TUBES – STATIC WHEN ADJUSTING. I TURN IT OFF TO ATTACH AN ATTENNA AND TRIED IT A SECOND TIME – NO NOISE NO POWER NO FAINT LIGHT IN THE TUBES".....
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No mention of the magic smoke floating out?
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Another poblem with buying 20s is their grillwork that rarely survives shipping.
I do have a 20 Deluxe, and recently eBy had quite a few of them, but only a couple of 20s and those are way up and not in too good a shape.
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Well, the verdict is in. Open field coil.
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Quote:No mention of the magic smoke floating out? [Image: http://philcoradio.com/phorum/images/smi...nfused.gif]
Yeah, I would like to bottle some of that magic smoke.
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Told ya.
This problem is too common with Philco 20-70-90 speakers and Model H (those are only ones I have), out of 4 8" ones 2 had it, and from 2 Model H - 1 has it.
And lucky you - 70 speaker has to have the center pole pressed out, no nut.
My heart goes to you.
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Mike, through the years I have had six of the 20/70/90 speakers and this is the first time I have had one with an open field coil. At first I thought the output transformer was bad too but, that turned out to be a break in the lead to the plug.
I think the seller will work with me on this.
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