Thread: '55 Philco
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Old 03-13-2013, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin View Post
Those were great sets.
I had a bad vertical output transformer in one, recapped it then sold it because it worked so well. The control cover is not much more than a trim piece that allowed top and bottom finger access to the knob IIRC.
That was one of my favorite Philco models. Philco went back to the full power transformer, with 5U4 and the single chassis.
Starting with the 1957 model year, it was down hill, for the company after that.
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