07-05-2018, 10:39 AM
They absolutely should.
They have paper capacitors hidden deep within their insides which can be extremely difficult at times to reach.
Not to mention old carbon composition resistors which are probably drifting way out of tolerance.
And in addition, mica caps in them are now 81-82 years old and these are beginning to fail on us also.
But if you don't replace the paper caps at the very least, the radio likely will not work properly if at all.
Curse David Grimes and his pain-in-the-behind RF units! Now, every time I see a Philco RF unit, I want to take a sledgehammer and destroy it!
But I don't.
They have paper capacitors hidden deep within their insides which can be extremely difficult at times to reach.
Not to mention old carbon composition resistors which are probably drifting way out of tolerance.
And in addition, mica caps in them are now 81-82 years old and these are beginning to fail on us also.
But if you don't replace the paper caps at the very least, the radio likely will not work properly if at all.
Curse David Grimes and his pain-in-the-behind RF units! Now, every time I see a Philco RF unit, I want to take a sledgehammer and destroy it!
But I don't.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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