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Philco What Is It
10-16-2025, 09:14 AM
Hello, Looking to possibly buy this radio but I need to drive eight hours to get it and then back again. Does anyone have any idea what model it is? The speaker is a K-17 if that helps. Using the Philco speaker list I was thinking one of these. But what pictures I saw none matched.
14B (Code 122), 16B, 17B, 18B, 116B (late), 118B, 650B, 655B Thanks, Dan 
10-16-2025, 11:26 AM
I think it is a model 16B radio.
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. 
10-16-2025, 11:45 AM
Looks in great shape. I bet those 90 year old paper caps are just as good ;-(
Maybe the seller can meet in between if you buy lunch.
10-16-2025, 12:03 PM
Mike, I think you are right.
Rod, Seller said he would do 2 hours. Do we have those paper caps for desert?
10-16-2025, 03:19 PM
I think there are only 2 radios that look similar (plastic hexagonal escutcheon)
Philco 16B and Philco 34b/44b (34 is the battery version; a shorter escutcheon without the shadograph). 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. 
10-17-2025, 02:53 PM
Sure looks like 5 band 16B from 1933 code 121. That's the first generation of the 16's tabletops.
https://philcoradio.com/library/download...20165B.pdf 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 it! Terry
10-17-2025, 06:57 PM
Yep.
That screw in the tuning knob is the tell-tell. 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.
10-18-2025, 08:09 AM
Oh so there is something there. Is that supposed to be there?
10-18-2025, 12:32 PM
Yes. The reason you could pull this to "switch gears" for tuning.
If it weren't there, the knob would eventually just come off. Those codes that do not use it, will not have the screw as it is not needed. 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.
10-19-2025, 08:16 AM
As for the rosette knob w/the screw in the center I've seen both configurations with the other have the set screw in the side. Either way it does need one or the other. The next generation would be the same set but in the tombstone cabinet and have a H-13 (10 1/2") spkr. They use bakeolite hex knobs and the tuning knob has a set screw in it's side.
https://philcoradio.com/gallery2/1935a/#Model_16B Here's how to rebuild the 2sp dial drive. https://philcoradio.com/library/index.ph...34-44-144/ 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 it! Terry
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