Philco 38-12 radio

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Originally Posted by Zsuttle

Yeah, that's the one I was referring to, however, I've had experience with Philco substituting items sometimes. I've found capacitor blocks where they shouldn't have been, and tubular caps the same. Could have been factory, or someone replacing with OEM parts, either way they were genuine philco stuff. Either way, they matched the schematic, though not the under chassis diagram provided.

ARF has a pretty good page under their resto section that translates the part numbers into cap values for the blocks (sadly it does a poor job for the ones that contain resistors and caps)....I just chip the tar out with a couple different sized screwdrivers and hide the new caps inside the block....Since the blocks act as terminal strips it is cheaper, simpler, and better looking to restuff them rather than replace with new terminal strips.