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Philco 37-690 Restoration
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Good morning, I took a vacation day off work today so I can do some more work on my 37-690. I got the power unit all recapped and decided to test it out and the radio works quite well other than a lot of crackling/popping noises in the audio which I suspect the large candohm being the culprit (I did order resistors to replace the 2240/3000 ohm sections)This radio is quite loud and the automatic bass control is working as well as the high frequency speakers. I checked the dial calibration according to the service bulletin and noticed all bands except for band 2 are slightly off but that shouldn't be an issue to realign the other 4 bands----band 2 dial accuracy is excellent. I tested the magnetic tuning operation and it works great. Hopefully when I replace the 2 resistors in the candohm unit the crackling will disappear. I'll have pics of the setup as soon as my cell phone is done charging.  Ken


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Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-11-2018, 05:33 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-11-2018, 07:47 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-12-2018, 05:48 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-12-2018, 10:10 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 04:51 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:38 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 09:03 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by GarySP - 05-13-2018, 09:44 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Phlogiston - 05-13-2018, 10:21 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-13-2018, 04:30 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:42 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2018, 07:44 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 06:26 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 06:36 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-15-2018, 08:14 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-15-2018, 09:05 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-15-2018, 11:22 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 05-19-2018, 08:19 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Phlogiston - 05-19-2018, 09:39 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 05-19-2018, 02:54 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-19-2018, 06:02 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 05-20-2018, 08:15 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-21-2018, 04:37 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 06:19 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by WyTex - 05-26-2018, 08:01 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 10:40 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 12:29 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by KCMike - 05-26-2018, 12:32 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 01:44 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 02:40 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by morzh - 05-26-2018, 02:58 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 05-26-2018, 03:16 PM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by tbone - 06-09-2018, 06:38 AM
RE: Philco 37-690 Restoration - by Kenradio - 06-09-2018, 06:50 PM



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