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Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3
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As most of you know, Debbie and I moved into a 1960 Mid Century house just over a year ago.

One of the amenities of this home is an original Rittenhouse RCM-3 AM/FM radio and house intercom.

According to some paperwork I managed to acquire for this unit several months ago, the RCM-3 was the first all-transistor unit of this type.

The master unit still worked when we moved in, but its performance was less than optimal; controls were scratchy (some DeoxIT soon took care of that), and the sound was not optimal. In fact, when the set was first turned on, there was a lot of distortion in the sound which cleared up somewhat after the unit was left on awhile, but still seemed subpar to me.

So last week when it quit working entirely, I decided it was time to restore this unit in the hopes that it will last another 54 years.

In case you do not know what I am talking about:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00001.jpg]

The next several posts will illustrate what I did to return this unit to working order.

--
Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


Messages In This Thread
Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by Ron Ramirez - 12-06-2014, 09:45 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by sam - 12-06-2014, 10:59 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by w4rtc - 12-07-2014, 12:22 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by morzh - 12-07-2014, 12:35 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by Arran - 12-09-2014, 02:04 AM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by Arran - 12-10-2014, 03:18 AM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by KCMike - 12-07-2014, 05:11 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by sam - 12-07-2014, 08:12 PM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by Arran - 12-10-2014, 02:00 AM
RE: Rebuilding a Rittenhouse RCM-3 - by mtk212 - 09-20-2024, 06:28 PM



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