[shaler78]

mis4tun81 DON'T DO IT! Listen to this Phorum's Experts and Senior Members! If this Philco 37-33F radio is in as good a shape as you say it is, You would get much more satisfaction in restoring the original electronics and use an inexpensive external device (small AM transmitter) to listen to audio thru it. This is a basic 6 tube set that would fairly easy for a beginner to restore. Learn some basic electronics, practice on some old junk with your soldering iron, and learn to read schematic drawings. Some time and patience and last but not least, ask any question on this Phorum for any problems you might have, no matter how vague, and it will be expertly answered here. Believe me, I started out 6 years ago, with absolutely no intentions of any type of restoration, with a decent 40-180X that my wife bought at an antique shop for $25 with the same idea as yours to gut it or repurpose it. I had second thoughts as I was just about to "rip it apart" but then started to carefully disassemble it, saving all old parts. I took all the precautionary steps to clean the chassis and test it as recommended by the good people on this Phorum. I eventually got a hold of some new buttons and a dial scale and proceeded to reassemble everything. It still works quite well sitting in a corner of my living room. I listen to baseball, hockey and football quite often with it. Luckily, Pittsburgh, PA. radio has a few Hall of Fame local team announcers. I now have 4 more Philco and 3 Zenith consoles that I have personally restored to respectability with another Philco on the bench. Once started, I'm now hooked!