[AI2V]

After six frustrating years of trying to achieve a nice finish on my late version 116, I’ve finally finished. I must have stripped and finished, stripped and finished, probably five times over the years before it came out looking the way I wanted. It’s a fantastic performer with a dead-on dial and for the time being will keep the 8” PM speaker that I put in years ago. The photo doesn't do it justice.

Oddly, I couldn’t align the IF to 460 KHz, nor 465. It only wanted 470 KHz so that’s where it stays. Being that this is the very last 116 model and somewhat scarce, I wonder if Philco production techs didn’t use IF transformers from the 1937 series.