[Ron Ramirez]

One more thing - I could not help but notice the routing of that shielded cable in your 655.

The routing of that shielded power cable frankly surprises me. I did own a 655 once, many years ago, but I do not remember how its switch cable was routed. The routing of that cable in your set looks very sloppy. Maybe a Philco employee got lazy?

Anyway, I do remember that in model 16 sets, the shielded switch cable was routed along the side of the chassis, as far away from other components as possible, then along the front up to the volume control/power switch.

I hope you don't mind - I took the liberty of using your photo and added a crude drawing of my own below to illustrate what I mean.

The cable itself is shown as a thick red line.

The 18 gauge wires are thinner red lines.

The shield is a brown line, connected at the AC line bypass bakelite block (only).

If you do need to replace this shielded cable, I think I would route it as shown in the drawing. Just a suggestion. Yes, I know myself and others have told you not to re-route wiring, but this is an exception.