Restoring a Philco 49-1280

[Eric H]

Well, it's home, I had to take the chassis out to get it off the truck.

It's amazing you can always find room for one more monster console in the house, or garage as the case may be.

First thing I notice was the CRT is the original Philco and that someone had been soldering on the pins, not a good sign and sure enough it's dead as a doornail, got a heater but that's it. Looks like the cap had been off at some point and it's epoxied on, I may try to remove it and see if it's just a wire off, or broken :-(

There was a huge mouse nest on top of the chassis, there are some pee stains but nothing too bad and nothing eaten that I can see.
There was poo everywhere! Old poo It was old poo and I used a filtered vacuum to remove it but if I get Hanta I'll know where it came from.

I love the original green Philco changer in this thing, two tone arms, one for 78 and the other for 33.

The set is remarkably complete and unmolested, all the parts are there including all three back covers, even the cartridges in the changer are there, tho no doubt no good.

Anyway, here's the pics.