Repair Of My 1931 Philco 70 Tube Radio. 

Great video on Philco 70 restoration! I think those 70 and 90 Cathedrals are the best looking radios Philco made. Really nice looking radio. Happy you have it working again just like when it was new. Enjoy!

Philco radios have their own unique sets of problems mostly capacitor related. They do work quite well after restoring one. Excellent job on it.

Thumbs Up, nice work, you rock, Lets Go Brand..

Thanks for sharing your refurbishment of this lovely old radio.

Thank you for the great video 👍this receiver is my old dream) the unique appearance of this radio is fascinating внеш the external condition is just excellent 5+ i am very glad that you have such a radio receiver.

It looks and sounds great!

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Those old Philcos are fun to work on. Yours looks and sounds great! I have a Philco 28 “Butterfly” on the bench now. I rebuilt 3 of the 4 Bakelite blocks and changed the electrolytics. New cloth power cord as well. It needs tuning capacitor grommets as well. Time to order some. I enjoy your videos. Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up on the alignment tool, just bought one.

Just picked up the same radio thank your for you video could do it with out you ..

-What a lovely radio....great repair....I just got done servicing a piece of test gear where someone "repaired" it previous similar to this. ~Jack, VEG

Old radio Receivers are cool they no how to billed radios then new radios today

Another fine repair. I think I heard some Christmas music at the end.

I have one too (as my PFP shows) but it needs a new power cord and caps

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Nice job as usual.

Nice job redoing the chassis. Makes me cringe when I see these sets hacked up like this one. Great job on putting it back. Sounds and looks great. Love these vintage Philco sets.

We have an old Silvertone that’s in poor shape but the cabinet is intact as is most wiring. Where is a good place to start to learn how to bring it back to life.

Respect! You have a much better work ethic than some of the others I see on RU-vid who just want to do a quick hack job and then sell it off. Yes, the chassis washers will bring that dial back into alignment, and will keep the control shafts from rubbing the bottom of the holes in the cabinet. Also, Philco did try to keep the alignment procedures a secret, but Rider came out with a book called "Aligning Philco Receivers", and you can get it from worldradiohistory.com. (It's a little more fiddly than your basic AA5, and the IF is NOT 455KHz!) I've done a few Philco 70's, and I rather enjoy working on them.

Technical question..... Hallicrafters Continentals schematic shows .05 cap between oscillator coil and band switch. Not my radio does not have that cap. Just straight original wire. Should I put that cap in or leave it like as good enough ? Your opinion is appreciated. Thanks

Man, that poor thing really did have a hack job literally done to it. Those hacked up blocks are just...why!? Those globs of solder look like someone had one of those big foot long antique soldering irons and used it with one of those thick rolls of plumbing solder, lol. A question. Does the wood case have recessed holes to hold rubber chassis supports? If so that may help keep the tuner lifted up to the proper height if you could get those. I know I had to put them into my '33 Philco 18H to get it to the proper height. I got them from radiodaze but I think they've quit carrying about anything but dials anymore. Nice job on the repair, Sir.

I bought a Philco 70 a few years back, which was converted into an Am/Fm radio. Imagine that. I restored the radio and cabinet but could not find a speaker for it. So here it sits waiting for a speaker. Should anyone have one they can sell or donate, please contact me.

great job where are you located i have a bunch of radios ive been collecting them for 40 years

Great old radio.

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