[jlwiley123]

This is my first post - thanks for letting me join the group!!

Regarding my background - I restored/repaired a number of old radios in the late 1970's and early 80's, but have been away from the hobby for most of the last 40 years.

I recently picked up a Philco Chassis 91 code 123 radio. The radio is pretty complete, although I think it is missing one of the shields. The tubes are not all original philco branded tubes, so it has had some tube replacements in it's past. From looking under the chassis, I am pretty sure that there has never been any work done under there. All the bakelite blocks look original and the dogbone type resisters are still there.

I am pretty comfortable doing the restoration work to get the radio working again, and frankly that would be my primary interest - I don't really like display only radios - I want them to be functional.

All that being said - here is my real question: Would I be committing some kind of cardinal sin by digging into this radio - replacing all the paper capacitors in the bakelite blocks, electorlytics and any resistors that are drastically out of tolerance? Please let me know as I will probably dig into the thing in the next 2 or 3 days.

Thanks