[drh4683]

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Last night, fixed it up and got it working like new. Razor sharp picture! All of the original 6GH8's were perfect! I was shocked. This set must have 2 hours on it for those to still be good. Being a philco, had some other oddball tubes that you dont run across too often. Those were all testing excellent (which is good because I dont have those tubes!) Good news is, its an american made set, with a hybrid of american and japanese tubes having the philco name stamped on them. Only problem was, a shorted out 6AQ5 audio out. It was an intermittent short and would loose sound and video. Just to note, this is the same chassis that Art Margolis used in his do it yourself TV repair books. You dont see the front of the set, just pics of him working on various sections of the set. When I pulled the back off for the first time, thats the first thing that came to my mind. I then looked at a few of his books and sure enough, this was the chassis!
BTW, this is a 1968 set. Reason being, most tubes are dated 67-48, 67-52. The sams reference shows it for '67. Most likely this set was made for a few years.