[Arran]

Hey Bob,

As a 38-690 owner, this IS actually Great News for me too. Knowing that you'll be making a video restoration is just what a lot of us can use.

I'm still getting experience working on my other Philcos, Thanx to Your videos, so I can take a swing at mine. The only references I have now is a very thorough ARF topic(8 pages) by Jim Chandler started back in late Jan. of 2010 & lochmiester's 116 videos. Surely this will be appreciated by many of us that are waiting to take on this task.

2yrs.+ ago I got mine for $600 + ($100 extra night hotel stay to get it from a car buddy of his in St. Louis, while visiting wife's relatives) delivered to the Lansing Extravaganza for me, I was on lay-off at the time, still didn't take me long to "pull the trigger"

Sure while deals may be still out there, the last FIVE 38's on e-bay went for 3@ $1450-$1600, 1@ $1750 & 1@ $1958. All complete(except for backs) good condition,some refinishing needed & of course total chassis restoration. I doubt none of them got delivered for a $65 bus ride.

BTW, my delivery guy also Gave me a matched PAIR of NOS, original boxes, Philco 6L6 ST ("Giant" coke bottle style) seldom seen on e-bay & when a pair do show up, a Benji is usually required, so I wasn't sweatin' the hotel bill much.

Don't want to sound too much like I'm "buttering you up" but once again, A Very Heart Felt Thank You for taking the extra time out to video your restoration projects that help so many of us noobs learn faster.

Lloyd
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Sometimes, the Heart can only SEE, what the EYES Cannot

I wouldn't use ebay as a measure anything these days unless you knew why was selling and who was buying. Between the shill bids, flakey bidders, money laundering scams, and just outright stupidity, it's not exactly reliable. Sometimes you see the same item sold and relisted several times because of this.
I know of a case years ago where there were these car dealers who would take turns listing cars on fleabay while the others would take turns shill bidding. Unfortunately for them someone noticed that the same car listed by one seller and bought by another guy, was getting listed again by the guy that bought it and being bid on by the previous seller.
At that time you could still identify the bidders by ebay identity, now it's like lord of the flies with everything hidden, you only need to look at our friend Foggy's auctions to figure that out. This was suposedly to prevent second chance offer scams, yah sure, more like enabling auction frauds like Foggy to fleece the masses.
Why would a pair of 6L6Gs equal a C note? They aren't even that rare and the G styles aren't even the high performance 6L6s, the high powered ones are 6L6GCs. But it makes about as much sense as paying $50 for an 80 rectifier tube.
Regards
Arran