This Philco is driving me nuts...

[Big Dave]

SUCCESS!!

I now have a very viewable picture. The vertical was fine, needing only height and lin adjustments. This time, I was able to set the tube on the chassis. Though the picture is lopsided, I played it for over an hour and a half with no problems. The tuner's channel slugs did need readjustment, since I only had sound on channel 10 (WBNS). 4 and 6 were picture only, fixed after adjustment.

The cabinet was not near as bad as I first thought. I cleaned it with a citrus based cleaner called DE-SOLV-IT. It removed tons of crud and the cabinet now has a nice satin sheen to it. The few gouges seem to have hidden well. I'll still need to touch those up.

I'll post updated chassis pics and pics of the set running out of the cabinet on my website in the next few days.

BTW: The doc took me off those rotten BP pills and gave me others.

Next up...either the Hallicrafters or one of the basket case RCA's.