12-28-2018, 12:17 PM
<Do you know if there is something similar for Philcos?
The post war Philco service info does have a service friendly overview w/ block diagrams, test points, and simplified diagrams. For instance http://www.nostalgiaair.org/pagesbymodel...013625.pdf Personally I don't like this style as the schematic is broken up and a bit of an overkill. Rather have it all together.
> Or will a basic radio text do?
That might be a better bet. Let's face it pretty much all of these AM superhet sets are the same, some have more tubes and maybe more features but the basics functions is the same. A good start is to understand what these functions are and how they work. Once that is understand these principles you can work on just about any of them.
The grandson of your 16B is the 37-116 this set makes your 16B look like a crystal set. It's got a lot going on. So how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
As a practical matter on the 16B would break the schematic down into sections starting w/the power supply then work up to the audio, detector, if amps, mixer, and avc. The important issues in the p/s check the transformer for heating, polarity of the filter caps, and check for open inductors (choke and field coil).
OBTW do you have any pics of the cabinet?
The post war Philco service info does have a service friendly overview w/ block diagrams, test points, and simplified diagrams. For instance http://www.nostalgiaair.org/pagesbymodel...013625.pdf Personally I don't like this style as the schematic is broken up and a bit of an overkill. Rather have it all together.
> Or will a basic radio text do?
That might be a better bet. Let's face it pretty much all of these AM superhet sets are the same, some have more tubes and maybe more features but the basics functions is the same. A good start is to understand what these functions are and how they work. Once that is understand these principles you can work on just about any of them.
The grandson of your 16B is the 37-116 this set makes your 16B look like a crystal set. It's got a lot going on. So how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
As a practical matter on the 16B would break the schematic down into sections starting w/the power supply then work up to the audio, detector, if amps, mixer, and avc. The important issues in the p/s check the transformer for heating, polarity of the filter caps, and check for open inductors (choke and field coil).
OBTW do you have any pics of the cabinet?
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
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