03-18-2026, 02:49 PM
Welcome to the Phorum
So folks can follow along here's a link to the US version schematic 39-116 from our digital library:
https://philcoradio.com/library/download...20Book.pdf
You did not pick an easy one for your first radio restoration so taking your time will be important. Take lots of photos as you go along; as much as possible change out one thing at a time.
There are two types of deoxit, one for metal contact cleaning and one for variable resistor/potentiometer cleaning. The metal cleaner is in a red can and the pot cleaner is in a green can. Using the red can on pots can clean off the coating used for the variable resistor in some cases. That may not be what's happing in your case though. Mark Oppat does do restoration of pots and you can contact him at his web site. Here's the controls page: https://www.oldradioparts.net/controls.htm
So folks can follow along here's a link to the US version schematic 39-116 from our digital library:
https://philcoradio.com/library/download...20Book.pdf
You did not pick an easy one for your first radio restoration so taking your time will be important. Take lots of photos as you go along; as much as possible change out one thing at a time.
There are two types of deoxit, one for metal contact cleaning and one for variable resistor/potentiometer cleaning. The metal cleaner is in a red can and the pot cleaner is in a green can. Using the red can on pots can clean off the coating used for the variable resistor in some cases. That may not be what's happing in your case though. Mark Oppat does do restoration of pots and you can contact him at his web site. Here's the controls page: https://www.oldradioparts.net/controls.htm
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