Yesterday, 08:10 AM
Hi I'm new here and seeing I now have a philco..well here I am!
During the Canada post strike, I bid on a Philco 610 in good shape.
I didn't think I'd win, so I had nothing to lose so I threw out $50. The days went by and nobody else bid, and I won it! Hot dog! I always wanted a tombstone radio but they go for big money if they aren't baked and trashed.
It looks like it has originally knobs, grill cloth, some Philco tubes, and cord. Finish is decent.
But it got to me in one piece.
Seller said he bought it twenty years ago and it worked then, but he fired it up and it just made static.
Got the old girl to my table, pulled the chassis out and somebody recapped it really sloppy.
Powered it up through a 100w bulb, put on a one foot wire, and it came alive happily pulling in lots of stations. Zero hum.....ZERO.
Speaker doesn't rub. Dial light was dead until I poked around and it came to life illuminating the dial!
Tuning is way off on the am band like by 50khz to the left if I tube to station 800khz.
Shortwave and has bleed over from the am band.
Cleaned the case with murfeys wood soap and warm water. Knobs too.
I didn't disturb any of the tubes, after seeing a YouTube video where the top cap ripped off a tube just pulling the wire off.
But I have some questions.
The tuning knob, the center fine control came off in my hand the shaft popped off some unseen coupling. Does anybody know how the gear reduction mechanism works so I can get it back on? The center knob came off with the shaft with the balloon the end with it.
I love this radio, I'm listening to programs and I'm impressed by it's volume and sound quality for a 6"speaker.
During the Canada post strike, I bid on a Philco 610 in good shape.
I didn't think I'd win, so I had nothing to lose so I threw out $50. The days went by and nobody else bid, and I won it! Hot dog! I always wanted a tombstone radio but they go for big money if they aren't baked and trashed.
It looks like it has originally knobs, grill cloth, some Philco tubes, and cord. Finish is decent.
But it got to me in one piece.
Seller said he bought it twenty years ago and it worked then, but he fired it up and it just made static.
Got the old girl to my table, pulled the chassis out and somebody recapped it really sloppy.
Powered it up through a 100w bulb, put on a one foot wire, and it came alive happily pulling in lots of stations. Zero hum.....ZERO.
Speaker doesn't rub. Dial light was dead until I poked around and it came to life illuminating the dial!
Tuning is way off on the am band like by 50khz to the left if I tube to station 800khz.
Shortwave and has bleed over from the am band.
Cleaned the case with murfeys wood soap and warm water. Knobs too.
I didn't disturb any of the tubes, after seeing a YouTube video where the top cap ripped off a tube just pulling the wire off.
But I have some questions.
The tuning knob, the center fine control came off in my hand the shaft popped off some unseen coupling. Does anybody know how the gear reduction mechanism works so I can get it back on? The center knob came off with the shaft with the balloon the end with it.
I love this radio, I'm listening to programs and I'm impressed by it's volume and sound quality for a 6"speaker.
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