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Bragging about my latest find. I've been wanting one of these four-column jobs. Didn't expect that what landed in the house would be a 91X, but it turned up eight miles away on FBMP and now it's mine.
Code 225 seems to be missing from the library, unless I just missed it. If anyone sees data for it, let me know. I know it's at least the second one on this Phorum. I can tell you it's a single-band, dual-speaker model. I'm told it plays when plugged in, though I find that neither the power switch (NFG) nor tuning knobs (missing dial string) work. Had to take it apart in the garage to get it downstairs.
Good enough cabinet condition to not have to strip and refinish. It would have to be, this looks really hard to refinish...
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Nice looking! This annotated schematic from our library shows parts that are slightly different in the early and later models.
https://philcoradio.com/library/index.ph...chematics/
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Nice grab! It appears to be a 19X cabinet. This wasn't unusual. Philco often retrofitted to other cabinets as inventory dictated. Take care, - Gary
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Thanks all. To be honest I don’t know what to make of it being in this cabinet style but I like it a lot. I specifically wanted one of the four-column cabinets.
As for code 225, I have the chassis on the bench and have found this is a single band set with the 4-point tone control. So I’ve had to use the code 121 documentation on the RF part, and the code 126 documentation for the audio section. Very confusing at first but it’s working out fine. Other good news is that I was able to repair the power switch (someone had taken it apart and reassembled it wrong.) I'll put it back in after the dial is restrung, the Amazon guy is bringing the string today.
This is how I found it under chassis. I’m in the process of removing all the tacked-on caps and restuffing the Bakelite boats. Going well so far, except that I dropped the 36 tube cathode resistor to 8200 ohms and yet still only one of my five 36 tubes (all used) will oscillate all over the dial. Going to have to order a couple of NOS ones I think.
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Hello,
I have a Philco 91 code 121 (one speaker). I found more info here that might be of some help. Might want to follow code 221.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...33-PQR.pdf
Scroll to Philco page 3-39.
Dan
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