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Mike I had the same problem with my 37-116 and as a quick fix I super glued everything and so far it has held up for a year now!

Ron

Hi Ron,

This is what I ended up doing.  After turning the dial shaft to move the rivets to one edge of their respective gaps in the rubber, a drop of Super Glue was applied to bridge the rubber disk and rivet heads.  If I eventually decide to replace the rubber disk, those small quantities of glue will be easy to remove.  For now, though, the slop in the tuning mechanism has been eliminated and I can finally do the RF alignment.

This set is the 12th Philco radio I've worked on and I have to say that there is something special about the higher tube count consoles that has me looking for more.  The performance of this 37-11 is impressive - it hears more stations than my other 10-12 tube sets on the same antenna.

Thanks to morzh and Sam for their advice as well.