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Philco 118
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Hi guys.

Decided to start on the 118.
This one I picked up on my way to get the 37-116 in MA I bough for Peter almost 2 years ago, in August 2014.
If anyone remembers, this was from the guy who all of a sudden decided not to sell it - he got offended by something. But eventually I got it.

The cabinet is in decent shape: arch support in one place separates a bit but that's a gluing job. No bowing, pretty solid.
No screws hold the chassis in place from the bottom - it is held by the two brackets in the back. Don't know if that was the intent: the brackets are clearly factory but the missing screws I am not sure about.

Anyways, here are some photos:

   
   
   
   
   



As you can see from the last photo, someone repaired it before: almost every backelite block has tubular caps soldered in parallel. The cord is not original Icon_smile  which is painfully obvious.
Very familiar picture: it is very much like the 18, which I restored 3 years ago or so.

Good news: the speaker has both the field coil and transformer good.

Well, this is it for now.

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Messages In This Thread
Philco 118 - by morzh - 05-24-2016, 09:07 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by KCMike - 05-24-2016, 09:35 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 05-24-2016, 09:44 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by gregb - 05-24-2016, 10:17 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 05-25-2016, 07:09 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by Eliot Ness - 05-25-2016, 07:46 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by klondike98 - 05-25-2016, 12:06 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 05-25-2016, 02:15 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 05-30-2016, 09:04 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-01-2016, 09:51 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-01-2016, 09:54 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-01-2016, 09:57 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by KCMike - 06-01-2016, 10:04 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-01-2016, 10:26 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-09-2016, 10:04 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-12-2016, 11:21 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by Arran - 06-13-2016, 04:23 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-13-2016, 10:57 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by Arran - 06-15-2016, 04:00 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-13-2016, 09:21 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-15-2016, 08:06 AM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 06-27-2016, 12:03 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 07-02-2016, 11:51 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 07-08-2016, 04:30 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 07-10-2016, 07:39 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 07-11-2016, 10:36 PM
RE: Philco 118 - by morzh - 07-13-2016, 09:09 PM



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