01-21-2012, 04:55 PM
Hi Tom
It sounds like you have the early 1933 model 14LZX chairside since it has the flat 8-conductor connecting cable. Does only the center section of the top flip open? If so...that's definitely a 14LZX.
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1933a.htm#a
Later on, after a new selling season had started, Philco began to offer four different chassis in the same chairside cabinet. The chairside unit looked similar to the earlier 14LZX...only now, the entire top swiveled open instead of the center section flipping open. These sets, which came with a revised 14 chassis (that is very different from the earlier 14LZX) as well as 16, 17 and 18 chassis, do not have the flat 8-conductor cable to connect the chairside unit to the speaker unit - instead, they have 4-conductor cable.
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1933c.htm#f
The schematics for the two versions of Model 14 differ. The early 14, Code 226, is identical to a late version of Model 91 with twin speakers; both are covered in Service Bulletin 129-B. The later 14, Code 121 (cathedral), 122 (console) and 123 (chairside) is in Bulletin 174.
The 17 was offered as a chairside, so what you have is probably correct. It is code 123; the 17 schematic is in Bulletin 161 (early production) and 161-B (later production, more information).
One more thing. The knobs on a 14LZX are laid out like a 91; close together. The later versions of the 14 are spread apart more, like the 17.
It sounds like you have the early 1933 model 14LZX chairside since it has the flat 8-conductor connecting cable. Does only the center section of the top flip open? If so...that's definitely a 14LZX.
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1933a.htm#a
Later on, after a new selling season had started, Philco began to offer four different chassis in the same chairside cabinet. The chairside unit looked similar to the earlier 14LZX...only now, the entire top swiveled open instead of the center section flipping open. These sets, which came with a revised 14 chassis (that is very different from the earlier 14LZX) as well as 16, 17 and 18 chassis, do not have the flat 8-conductor cable to connect the chairside unit to the speaker unit - instead, they have 4-conductor cable.
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1933c.htm#f
The schematics for the two versions of Model 14 differ. The early 14, Code 226, is identical to a late version of Model 91 with twin speakers; both are covered in Service Bulletin 129-B. The later 14, Code 121 (cathedral), 122 (console) and 123 (chairside) is in Bulletin 174.
The 17 was offered as a chairside, so what you have is probably correct. It is code 123; the 17 schematic is in Bulletin 161 (early production) and 161-B (later production, more information).
One more thing. The knobs on a 14LZX are laid out like a 91; close together. The later versions of the 14 are spread apart more, like the 17.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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