Sylvania halolight combo!

[radiotron]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Did you turn it off in time to prevent any more damage or a fire? How much damage to the chassis was there, if any? I personally cannot imagine how a broken pilot light (most of them in old radios are #47s) could cause a major short such as you describe, unless the pieces of the bulb somehow shorted a B+ point to ground and overloaded the power transformer. That may be where the smoke was coming from.

Hope you get the radio working again. These old sets can work quite well when they are in good shape. Recap yours (at very least replace the filters), and you will have a set you can be proud of.

Sylvania made some excellent TVs in their day. The Halolight cast a soft glow around the TV picture, increasing the contrast and also allowing the use of the TV in an otherwise dark room -- although I'd think the picture could be even better with at least one room light on in addition to the Halolight, to say nothing of reducing the possibility of eyestrain, as could happen if one watches TV in a totally dark room (most eye doctors will warn their patients against this).

Good luck.

yes i turned it off in time theres no damage to the chaissis whew the radio still works, what happened was the solder on the bottom cracked slid over, and touched the to together
it hasnt been recaped, but the caps are really strong