Philco 60 restoration

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Thanks! I also spent a looooong time masking off the chassis and gave it a couple coats of Rustoleum Specialty metallic Chrome.
I followed that up with a couple coats of clear semi-gloss enamel. It's a pretty good match to cadmium plating I think.

I'll let it cure for a couple days then i can finally start putting this all back together!

[leadlike]

Well, at least your tone control will work-mine is shorted out to the chassis, so it only works on the one setting. I'm guessing there should a be a fiber spacer or something on the control shaft that failed on mine. The set certainly lacks that 1930s "booming bass" that I'm used to.

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Originally Posted by leadlike

Well, at least your tone control will work-mine is shorted out to the chassis, so it only works on the one setting. I'm guessing there should a be a fiber spacer or something on the control shaft that failed on mine. The set certainly lacks that 1930s "booming bass" that I'm used to.

The shaft should be ground it's the little contact pad that needs to be insulated. I think if that's shorted to the chassis (ground), you'll have a larger capacitance on the output which will filter out the lower frequencies.

I suppose you could just snip the wire to that switch contact.