Repair Of A 1940 Philco 40 180 Tube Radio

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• DF

  @dfirth224 · 4 years ago

  At age 13 in 1963 our next door neighbor gave me her old 1937 Philco console.  My dad took it to the TV-Radio repair shop around the corner and they still had some old 1930s tubes on hand.  In high school I did more work on it.

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• MA

  @mattkolb1191 · 4 years ago

  Wow, I wish they all looked like that one.  Looks well cared for for sure.  Sounds like a solid performer as well.  Nice work!

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• RI

  @richardhines · 4 years ago (edited)

  Nice job on the radio. Those push buttons must have been replaced with repros since the originals are always crumbled.

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• BA

  @batman387 · 4 years ago

  Great video. I learned a lot. My M/W 62-329 took me a good month to get working. Thanks & take care! 🤠

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• HE

  @hestheMaster · 4 years ago

  Great analysis of why you didn&apos;t get a signal. All paper caps should be replaced and the electrolytics too. Check for<br>out of tolerance resistors &nbsp;then do an alignment and it should work and sound great for many years. Transformer <br>operated sets should get a properly sized inline slo-blow fuse. The owner should be happy with all your dilengence <br>on the &nbsp;excellent chassis work!

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• AL

  @AllAmericanFiveRadio · 4 years ago

  Nice work and troubleshooting, I&apos;m sure the customer will enjoy it. <br>When capacitors turn into resistors,,, another book title.

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• PA

  @patfromamboy · 4 years ago

  I have several of them including the one my grandparents bought new in 1940. I wanted to work on a few to learn before I worked on the historic family radio. I bought several of the table top models because I am hooked and they use a lot of the same parts. I got a few up and running. They are fun to work on. I had a professional work on two of them thinking that I could see how it’s done but it was very expensive and I think mine are better!

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• ED

  @edmccormick8024 · 4 years ago

  another great job ive got a lot of old stuff been collecting 42 years

• MO

  @MowerJunkie · 4 years ago

  Nice old radio! Thanks for sharing the repair.

• GO

  @gordondolph7938 · 4 years ago

  Great video. The converter tube was changed from a type 7J7 loktal to a 6J8G octal beginning with production run 4 of this model.

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• ES

  @ESDI80 · 4 years ago

  I have that same radio! &nbsp;Hopefully I can get around to restoring it soon.

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• TH

  @THOMMGB · 3 years ago

  Thanks for a very informative Radio Rescue. That original radio looks amazing for its age! I&apos;m curious if you have a label inside the cabinet that shows the correct tubes and their location on the chassis? Sometimes you&apos;ll find someone installed a totally inappropriate tube that sorta works and they leave it at that. <br>Right now (01/31/23) you&apos;re at 6.99K subscribers, so congratulations are in order, I would think. 7K is so close you can taste it!