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These Philco split chassis sets are good beginner restoration TVs. Because the split chassis the chassis are small and light and about as convenient to work on as a small console radio chassis. They generally respond well to a recap, and perform well once working, and are good watcher sets. They do have a lot of caps especially paper caps...Granted if the original Sprague bumblebee caps are in it those resold on eBay will probably pay for the new caps plus the cost of the set plus whatever other parts it needs.
If you are not used to working on tube electronics I recommend getting a 40s era 5 tube table radio to recap first as practice. Learning how to identify parts of that vintage, how to recap multi-section FP twist lock electrolytic caps, trace a schematic etc in a tube set is far easier in a table radio than a TV.
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