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Proud new owner of a 37-690
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As some of you may know I recently bought a new house and just finished moving. A lot of my collection is now in a climate controlled storage facility, but some of the best are now in a display room. That includes this 37-690.

I moved all the sets either myself or with the help of a friend. I removed some of the chassis to lighten the load which gave me the opportunity to finally take a closer look inside this beast.

Turned out the removing the lower chassis didn't help as much as we had hoped but taking out the big speaker too sure did.

[Image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/741/325049...3b54_c.jpg]

[Image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3827/32504...b6c1_c.jpg]

[Image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2902/32504...74fa_c.jpg]

While disconnecting the tweeters I noted that they both were nuts and showed evidence of having been removed. Also the cable for the one in the upper right butts up next to a tube shield.

Well that got me thinking and I did a little web searching and discovered ever example I could find showed the tweeters with the connections up top - not at the bottom. That leads me to the conclusion that mine are in upside-down!
[Image: https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7236/69327...403a_c.jpg]


Here's one I found online.

[Image: http://www.tuberadioland.com/images/phil...ear_9_.jpg]


Messages In This Thread
Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-27-2012, 09:56 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by LASJayhawk - 04-27-2012, 10:00 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-27-2012, 10:02 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by ipwizard - 04-28-2012, 12:25 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 04-28-2012, 12:37 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-28-2012, 12:49 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 05-01-2012, 02:42 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 04-27-2012, 10:04 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by TA Forbes - 04-27-2012, 10:17 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by TA Forbes - 04-27-2012, 10:20 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-27-2012, 11:18 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 04-28-2012, 12:39 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-28-2012, 01:12 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by w4rtc - 04-28-2012, 02:01 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Jayce - 04-28-2012, 10:03 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-29-2012, 01:25 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 05-01-2012, 02:28 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 04-29-2012, 03:02 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by LASJayhawk - 04-29-2012, 08:50 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Ron Ramirez - 04-29-2012, 09:42 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Tom Hamilton - 05-02-2012, 02:41 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 05-02-2012, 11:18 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Ron Ramirez - 05-03-2012, 05:34 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 05-15-2012, 01:55 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by PhilcoMike - 05-16-2012, 02:59 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 05-16-2012, 06:06 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 05-16-2012, 10:14 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by PhilcoMike - 05-17-2012, 03:07 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 01-31-2013, 12:38 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by 7estatdef - 01-31-2013, 06:01 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 11-24-2014, 03:43 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by morzh - 11-24-2014, 03:51 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by KCMike - 11-24-2014, 04:22 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 11-25-2014, 05:48 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 11-25-2014, 12:26 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-25-2014, 10:08 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Arran - 11-26-2014, 01:35 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 11-28-2014, 05:23 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Geoff - 12-09-2014, 02:27 AM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 03-10-2017, 03:09 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Bob Andersen - 03-10-2017, 03:12 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by PhilcoJohn - 03-10-2017, 07:34 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by Tim Tress - 08-21-2017, 07:55 PM
RE: Proud new owner of a 37-690 - by RadioSvit - 09-04-2017, 04:10 PM



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