[Nick3092]

Nice work, Nick!  

I've had a 37-675 (no comparison to yours, though) on the bench, for a couple of years.  You may have inspired me to finish this beast!  I've done quite a bit, but there's still work remaining (RF deck stuff, flippin' rotten bulb sockets, new dial (I broke mine, like an idiot!) and send the cabinet out for a real finish.  Mine has a bad coil, for band two, also!  I won't dink with it.

Due to your achievement, I decided to "fire" mine up yesterday, after putting an extra length of hook-up wire on the antenna terminal, in order to reach my garage hung random wire antenna feed.  I must complete this project!!!!!!

Again, great work, and thanks for your motivation!!!!!

Glad I could get you motivated again!  I was afraid of the RF deck at first.  But it's not that bad as long as you take pictures of all the wires coming out.  And I also use those letter stickers to mark each wire I disconnected and I put a second one back on the tie point in the chassis I pulled the wire from.  Those two things make it easy to reconnect everything, even a couple days later.  The sockets are annoying, but easy to fix thanks to Ron's write up on them.  It's a shame Philco had a bad run of coils on these.  Seems like almost everyone that used this RF deck has a bad oscillator coil on band 2.

I did email RD about if they could make a reproduction call tab sheet (even if I cut them out myself).  They never replied.  Maybe I'll give them another email to nudge them to see if they reply.  I know they've been busy trying to launch a new website.  it's been almost a week though.  I'll give it another couple days and email them again.  In the mean time, I'll comb the craft stores and see if I can come up with some other viable material.

The volume and on/off/bass decals were pretty much rubbed off on the chassis.  So i decided to see how well overlaying a new decal on them would line up.  I found RD's decals were pretty far off from aligning on top of the remnants of mine.  So much it looked pretty bad.  So I tried he decals from AES.  They weren't perfect, but they look much, much better then a bare spot or some kind of smudge.

       

Another question I have is mounting the chassis.  I got 4 new chassis washers from Ed at RR.  As far as I can tell, this radio sits only on these 4, and has one screw with a sleeve on it that comes up through the back.  The hole in the back is much larger than the sleeve though.  So I don't even know what good that screw is doing back there.

Playing around with the grommets i bought for my 40-180 screws, I found 2 of them are almost a perfect fit over the sleeve.  And they are about the same diameter as the sleeve.  Was there originally a grommet on the sleeve?  Also, how does this actually hold the radio in place?  As you can see, the grommets fit through the hole.  And the sleeve flange is the same diameter.  So it also goes through the hole.  The bottom side is also "counter sunk" with a larger hole.  Like maybe a larger washer was supposed to go on on the sleeve.  Does any one know for sure what the proper way is to install this screw and sleeve (washer/no washer, grommet/no grommet, etc...)?