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Messed up Philco 90
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Here's what I found inside when I pulled the chassis.

Tube lineup - 80, 24A, 56, 24A, 35, 6H6, 6F5, 2A5, 6U5. Not exactly stock!
[Image: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8541/89704...6ba0_c.jpg]

The most confusing modification was the 6H6 and 6F5 tubes because there's no 6.3 winding on the transformer secondary.
[Image: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5443/89716...c025_c.jpg]

Nice blue Acrturus globe 56 where a 27 should be.
[Image: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/89716...9fe0_c.jpg]

Finally, here's what I found underneath. What a mess! The IF and LO on the right seem original, but the rest has been radically altered. Two multi-section box caps, a filter choke, tapped bias resistor and most of the bakelite blocks are all gone Icon_sad Instead, I have a few new caps one power resistor and a small 6.3 VAC filament transformer.
[Image: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/89704...3927_c.jpg]

So what do you guys think ? it's already been suggested I just start looking for a new 90 chassis rather than attempt to restore this one.


Messages In This Thread
Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-06-2013, 04:17 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-06-2013, 04:26 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Art Hoch - 06-06-2013, 05:29 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Mondial - 06-06-2013, 06:25 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 06-06-2013, 06:57 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bill Kinghorn - 06-06-2013, 07:02 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bill Kinghorn - 06-06-2013, 07:05 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-06-2013, 08:20 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Mondial - 06-06-2013, 08:48 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by GarySP - 06-06-2013, 09:14 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bill Kinghorn - 06-06-2013, 11:30 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 06-06-2013, 11:34 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-07-2013, 12:01 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 06-07-2013, 12:27 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-07-2013, 12:39 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Arran - 06-07-2013, 03:22 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Philco281989 - 06-09-2013, 12:07 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-09-2013, 02:02 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by wa2ise - 06-11-2013, 09:45 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-23-2013, 04:05 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 06-23-2013, 07:29 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-23-2013, 09:35 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Arran - 06-23-2013, 09:44 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-23-2013, 10:22 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Arran - 06-24-2013, 12:08 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by wa2ise - 06-25-2013, 09:20 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Arran - 06-25-2013, 09:35 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 06-25-2013, 10:39 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by AI2V - 06-27-2013, 10:05 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-27-2013, 11:27 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Electrothaumaturgist - 06-27-2013, 11:29 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Ron Ramirez - 06-27-2013, 04:42 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Arran - 06-28-2013, 01:55 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Eliot Ness - 06-28-2013, 08:25 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by marty - 06-28-2013, 09:29 AM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by Bob Andersen - 06-28-2013, 12:33 PM
RE: Messed up Philco 90 - by morzh - 07-05-2013, 10:10 PM



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