03-05-2013, 05:02 PM
Today was a snow day here due to the big storm so I spent about 8 hours assembling and modifying the Philco 112X cabinet to work with my McMurdo Masterpiece 2 combo.
Setting the main chassis on top was the easy part.
Today I removed the original speaker cross-board and lowered it to the bottom of the cabinet where there were already 2 side support brackets.
Then I bolted the 12" pedistal Jensen to the angled soundboard with the bottom of the stand just touching the bottom board so most of the load was off the bolts. Then I located the amp vertically in the space to the side of the speaker and resting on the new support board. It just barely fit with clearance of the 3 plug in cables.
Next I screwed in a small angle bracket to keep the amp from swinging back from its new location. Then I figured out a way to located the ON/OFF switch to the back of the cabinet so I did not have to drill any holes.
Finally I cleaned up everything with zip ties and picture frame hooks to keep the wires etc in place and away from the amp tubes. Everything I used today was stuff laying around in my misc parts drawer. I used coated wire as the green/red speaker sound connectors between the amp and chassis as I did not have the correct original style pins.
It looks pretty clean and sounds very nice now. I noticed that the angled sound board really throws the speaker sound up and at you when you back up from the cabinet. I am very pleased how this all turned out and at 40 1/2" tall is right about where my other consoles are height wise.
The radio is a dual dial with the left side dial a fine tuner. The 4 knobs are volume, tone, variable IF (I think) and band switch. This is a circa 1934 set with the 2B6 output tubes and 12 tubes total. It sounds as nice now as any of my other radios. makes ya wonder why they kept changing stuff each year for 'improvements'.
Setting the main chassis on top was the easy part.
Today I removed the original speaker cross-board and lowered it to the bottom of the cabinet where there were already 2 side support brackets.
Then I bolted the 12" pedistal Jensen to the angled soundboard with the bottom of the stand just touching the bottom board so most of the load was off the bolts. Then I located the amp vertically in the space to the side of the speaker and resting on the new support board. It just barely fit with clearance of the 3 plug in cables.
Next I screwed in a small angle bracket to keep the amp from swinging back from its new location. Then I figured out a way to located the ON/OFF switch to the back of the cabinet so I did not have to drill any holes.
Finally I cleaned up everything with zip ties and picture frame hooks to keep the wires etc in place and away from the amp tubes. Everything I used today was stuff laying around in my misc parts drawer. I used coated wire as the green/red speaker sound connectors between the amp and chassis as I did not have the correct original style pins.
It looks pretty clean and sounds very nice now. I noticed that the angled sound board really throws the speaker sound up and at you when you back up from the cabinet. I am very pleased how this all turned out and at 40 1/2" tall is right about where my other consoles are height wise.
The radio is a dual dial with the left side dial a fine tuner. The 4 knobs are volume, tone, variable IF (I think) and band switch. This is a circa 1934 set with the 2B6 output tubes and 12 tubes total. It sounds as nice now as any of my other radios. makes ya wonder why they kept changing stuff each year for 'improvements'.
