New find... 1950's Philco Console

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by bgadow

as I recall it was pretty easy to make up a remote since it just has a few wires to hook switches to.

Hey, your right! Making a remote would be a breeze! Thanks for that idea!

I guess I am going to need to get some extra "basic" tools and instruments to keep here at the cabin... because I have been itchin to play with this set all day. Hell... i don't even have a volt/ohm meter here.

I pulled tubes to clean off the dust and was checking out date codes. Apparently, this set was last serviced by someone during the 80's. The damper tube was branded an Admiral with a date code of 1983 on it. All of the others were dated in the 50s and 60s.

I left out the 5U4 and plugged in the power to see if the power tuning still worked. Pressed the button on top and the tuner went thru the channels just fine... stopping at the ones it was set for. That's cool! Hope i have that luck with the rest of it.

Although the guy that had the set has no idea whether or not the remote was around when his grandparents had the set, he told me he'd keep an eye open for it. He said there were several boxes of stuff from their lake house and it was possible it could be in one of them.