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Philco 630 electrolytic question
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03-14-2022, 12:55 PM
I have the radio picking up stations now but I have two questions.

 The wire in the red box is not connected to anything, nor does it appear that there ever was anything soldered to the middle portion of the variable condenser…so I don’t know what it’s purpose is. If I touch it or go near it with my hand, the reception/ volume goes up quite a bit. Why does the volume increase so much and is there other items that I should be checking that would account for the increase in volume. I’m still new to radio restoration.

The other question regards the volume control. I get ok volume but it doesn’t go up very much when I turn the control up. I did spray the volume control with Deoxit but was wondering where I could get a replacement volume control and how do you determine which volume control is needed for any certain radio.


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Philco 630 electrolytic question - by Hamilton - 03-06-2022, 01:05 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by RodB - 03-06-2022, 02:14 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by RodB - 03-06-2022, 02:29 PM
Hamilton - by Hamilton - 03-06-2022, 03:34 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by RodB - 03-06-2022, 06:45 PM
Hamilton - by Hamilton - 03-14-2022, 12:55 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by Mondial - 03-14-2022, 02:02 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by David - 03-14-2022, 02:42 PM
RE: Philco 630 electrolytic question - by Mondial - 03-14-2022, 04:06 PM
Hamilton - by Hamilton - 03-15-2022, 08:40 AM



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