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Philco 37-116 code 121 chassis restoration completed
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Hello, I finally got my Philco 37-116 chassis restored and is working on all bands and will be starting on the cabinet this week. I do have a question--on bands 4 & 5 is there an easier way to properly align them without using the added variable capacitor that Philco recommends during aligning the oscillator trimmers? I have tried to do it in the past and never could align it using their method of aligning it.  Attached pictures of the completed chassis. Thanks,  Ken


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Good morning everyone--I finally got the 37-116 chassis and speaker mounted in the cabinet and tested it out last night and it sounds great--excellent tone and is very loud. I have some small wrinkles in the grille cloth that still need to be straightened out but it doesn't look too bad. I polished up the cabinet but it does have cracked veneer--hope to find a nice cabinet but being the standard version it will be very difficult to find a replacement cabinet. Attached are pictures of the Philco 37-116


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I forgot to mention, I also replaced the bad original dial with one I got from Mark Oppat--luckily he had one left as the one from Radio Daze has the incorrect font and information missing on the dial
#4

Hey Ken

Nice job! 
I've got the same set w/ some minor cracking down the sides. I was thinking maybe some light sanding and sealer to level it out a bit. Then a little toner if it needs it. The sets still on my todo list. May be this Winter...

Waiting on some hardware parts for four cathedral cabinets so I can tentatively put them together till Spring and refinish.

When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#5

Great Job, Ken.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.




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