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Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue

Ron Ramirez
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City: Ferdinand State, Province, Country: Indiana

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06-22-2018, 09:53 PM

I had a hard time removing the speaker from the cabinet. Of course, two of the three speaker mounting nuts were rusted to the decorative speaker screws.

Fortunately, a little PB Blaster and some gentle persuasion soon took care of that problem.

I connected the speaker, connected my little 12 foot antenna, plugged the T7-5 into my Variac, slowly brought it up and...

It's Alive!

[Video: https://youtu.be/ZaKu0BDiAG4]

Less than three weeks...not bad after the last project.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_055.jpg]

Of course it isn't finished yet. There is still the matter of the dial pointer, and replacing the dial scale. In addition, the speaker sounds awful - much like a Philco 20. There is a good reason for that...

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_054.jpg]

Look, Ma, no spider! And so the voice coil is rubbing the pole piece like crazy. The cone is not in very good shape, either. Looks like this calls for a recone job.

Well, this weekend I'll see what I can do about the dial pointer, in between my other weekend projects. I'm just happy to have this one basically done! Icon_biggrin

--
Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN

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Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-03-2018, 01:38 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-03-2018, 01:47 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 06-03-2018, 04:48 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-03-2018, 05:40 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-03-2018, 07:14 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Steve Davis - 06-04-2018, 08:00 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Arran - 06-05-2018, 04:20 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Electrothaumaturgist - 06-05-2018, 04:47 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-06-2018, 08:15 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-06-2018, 08:25 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-08-2018, 09:45 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Electrothaumaturgist - 06-09-2018, 06:58 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-09-2018, 09:43 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 06-09-2018, 10:26 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Arran - 06-09-2018, 11:06 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-10-2018, 07:11 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-10-2018, 06:05 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-10-2018, 07:05 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 06-10-2018, 08:29 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-10-2018, 08:44 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 06-10-2018, 08:53 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by EdHolland - 06-11-2018, 11:32 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Electrothaumaturgist - 06-11-2018, 11:42 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-12-2018, 08:37 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Kenneth F. Besso Jr. - 06-13-2018, 07:07 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-13-2018, 10:40 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-14-2018, 05:21 AM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-14-2018, 08:11 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-16-2018, 11:31 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-19-2018, 08:34 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-20-2018, 08:47 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Arran - 06-21-2018, 04:08 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-21-2018, 08:32 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Paul Philco322 - 06-21-2018, 08:51 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-22-2018, 09:53 PM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 06-22-2018, 10:48 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-23-2018, 05:29 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-24-2018, 07:38 AM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 06-24-2018, 11:10 AM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Eliot Ness - 07-03-2018, 06:42 AM

RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 07-03-2018, 09:37 PM

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RE: Ron's RCA T7-5 Electronic Rescue - by Ron Ramirez - 07-10-2018, 11:57 AM

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