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Where Do I start? Philco 41-300
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Welcome, and it's a really nice set. You did the best thing by not plugging it in. There's a lot that will have to happen first. If you can read schematics you can get one on the ARF or a much better one from Chuck Schwank on this forum at a very modest price. You will want to replace just about all the capacitors, especially the filter and bypass ones, and any resistors that measure out of tolerance, (you will find they have all drifted up in value, I wouldn't trust anything more than 15% above.) Well, then you should fuse the set with a 1 amp fast blow , and power the set up slowly with a variac, start with about 60 volts, leave for a half an hour, then bring her up real slowly. Tubes are pretty hardy, and if they are glowing, and nothing smells and the fuse doesn't blow, that's good news. Any noise, even a whisper out of the loudspeaker is very good news. Don't touch anything whilst the set is connected to power. let us know how you are doing.


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Where Do I start? Philco 41-300 - by JDP75 - 05-28-2011, 02:22 PM
Re: Where Do I start? Philco 41-300 - by codefox1 - 05-28-2011, 05:33 PM
Re: Where Do I start? Philco 41-300 - by exray - 05-28-2011, 06:59 PM
Re: Where Do I start? Philco 41-300 - by codefox1 - 05-31-2011, 04:52 PM



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