10-15-2015, 12:48 PM
What would be a fair offer for model 118 console. It is complete, works, and the cabinet is in decent shape.
118 console price?
10-15-2015, 12:48 PM
What would be a fair offer for model 118 console. It is complete, works, and the cabinet is in decent shape.
10-15-2015, 01:51 PM
Depends where. In SD - good question. Here it can go over 100 bucks. Somewhere in IN it will probably be about $70-80 give or take.
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.
10-15-2015, 07:13 PM
It also depends on which 118 console you are speaking of.
Go here and look over the several different styles. Page 1 - http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1935a.htm Page 2 - http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1935b.htm Page 3 - http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1935c.htm An early or late 118D (pages 1 and 3) would command a premium over the others as these are much harder to find than the others. -- Ron Ramirez Ferdinand IN
10-15-2015, 08:03 PM
It's the 118X model console with the 3 vertical bars.
10-15-2015, 08:13 PM
From what I can find on it, it appears to have a class "A" output circuit with 3? #42 tubes. Is this correct? If so, what makes it so special?
10-15-2015, 08:55 PM
The 118 is a very good performer. The 118 does indeed have three 42s, one as a driver and two as PP outputs. I have a 118 chassis in my shop that I listen daily. I plan to someday make a cabinet for it.
Steve M R Radios C M Tubes
10-15-2015, 09:21 PM
I have the cathedral one.
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.
10-19-2015, 11:34 AM
All the 118s were 10W undistorted output sets. That's a fair amount of power for 1935.
10-19-2015, 03:29 PM
For what it's worth I paid $ 25 for a 118x console this summer . It is non working, with the grill cloth gone but with a very clean chassis. My hope at the time was to find a cathedral cabinet to put the chassis in.The cabinet has normal wear. I am located in Ma. just south of Boston.
Henry
10-20-2015, 03:04 AM
The Philco 18/118 all use a class A-B power output stage with three triode connected type 42 tubes, what Tom says is no exaggeration, they really can put out about 10 Watts of undistorted power. Now what is the set worth, well I would try to keep it at under $100 complete, unless it's in really nice condition with all the paperwork or something, if it needs knobs or cabinet repair start docking value accordingly. As for me I would like to find a model 118MX myself, to go with my 3118B.
Regards Arran
10-20-2015, 09:57 AM
Of course you have to compare delivered price (or factor in cost of you going to get the set yourself.) Anyway $100 for a nice winter project that you feel can reasonably be done is not more than a trip to a really good restaurant, so go figure.
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