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Philco 38-2 Restoration
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Well, my 38-2 is all back together, came back to life. I brought power to the chassis in stages; without tubes, with tube but no rectifier, than all tubes. All I could get out of it was a very low hum. I've rebuilt all the electrolytics. My plan is to disable the audio shorting mechanism in the dial assembly, pretty simple and I did have to work on it for a bit as it was in pretty rough shape, and kept shorting out. I thought I had it working well prior to reassembling it, it is the only thing I can think of as it has a full set of new tubes as well, all tested good. 

Any ideas out there that I'm not thinking of?

Thanks, Link


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Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 03-24-2020, 04:44 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Radioroslyn - 03-24-2020, 07:22 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 03-24-2020, 07:49 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Radioroslyn - 03-24-2020, 10:28 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by rfeenstra - 03-24-2020, 11:23 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Greg - 03-25-2020, 12:42 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 03-25-2020, 01:27 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 03-31-2020, 12:09 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Radioroslyn - 03-31-2020, 12:50 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Paul Philco322 - 03-31-2020, 01:34 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 04-03-2020, 09:32 AM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 04-04-2020, 05:15 PM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Greg - 04-05-2020, 01:01 AM
RE: Philco 38-2 Restoration - by Link - 04-05-2020, 08:20 AM



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