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Philco 21 repair
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I'm grateful this forum is here, and I've enjoyed reading about Philadelphia Storage Battery Radios.  I run across philcoradio.com while searching for information on an old cathedral my son bought.  I cannot divulge how much he paid, but it was about a half a tank of gas including tax.
Since I'm not afraid of taking anything apart (and my parents never stopped me), I will attempt to get this thing running.  My son (Ben) is working
on the cabinet.

   

The article in 'Tech Section, 'Notes on Model 21' is especially helpful.

Tubes as found (the 80 and a 45 were in wrong locations when I drug it home)

1st RF, 2nd RF, and Detector- Philco type 24, Majestic G-24, and Philco 24A
1st audio  Majestic G-27
2nd audio  Wizard K9-45 and RCA Radiotron UX-245
Rectifier Cen-Rad 80

I can't test emissions, but all the heaters have continuity.

Notice the cabinet has 2 wood spacers shimming up the chassis. The left side of the chassis had slipped off one of them, and that's why the shafts were cockeyed in the front holes.  I thought the shims were odd; and wonder if all 21's had this?

I stole a forum members technique, and labeled the components with masking tape.

   
   
   
   


Messages In This Thread
Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 06-19-2019, 04:28 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 06-19-2019, 04:31 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Chas - 06-19-2019, 09:17 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Radioroslyn - 06-20-2019, 10:22 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Steve Davis - 06-20-2019, 11:38 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Radioroslyn - 06-20-2019, 11:50 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 06-21-2019, 09:44 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 06-24-2019, 09:19 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 07-22-2019, 04:12 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Chas - 07-22-2019, 07:06 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Radioroslyn - 07-22-2019, 08:07 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Chas - 07-22-2019, 11:41 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 07-23-2019, 11:26 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-10-2019, 04:06 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by bensharp27 - 09-10-2019, 08:43 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-11-2019, 10:39 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 09-11-2019, 12:32 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-11-2019, 01:02 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by rfeenstra - 09-11-2019, 01:53 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 09-11-2019, 02:09 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Steve Davis - 09-11-2019, 10:08 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-12-2019, 01:31 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-19-2019, 09:54 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 09-19-2019, 11:32 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-19-2019, 12:46 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Steve Davis - 09-19-2019, 01:11 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by rfeenstra - 09-19-2019, 01:42 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 09-19-2019, 01:52 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Radioroslyn - 09-19-2019, 05:09 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by rfeenstra - 09-19-2019, 05:47 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-20-2019, 08:44 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 09-20-2019, 01:17 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-23-2019, 11:39 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Radioroslyn - 09-23-2019, 12:07 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 09-25-2019, 07:58 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 10-10-2019, 11:36 AM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 10-10-2019, 12:10 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by Simon Wa3uay - 10-10-2019, 07:05 PM
RE: Philco 21 repair - by morzh - 10-11-2019, 09:07 AM



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