Philco Model 53-T1886 Code 125 AM/FM/Phono/TV Combo

[vortalexfan]

Hello Everyone, a friend of mine recently had a friend who passed away recently and he was helping his friend's widow go through her late husband's stuff and he bought for me a 1953 Philco Model 53-T1886 Code 125 AM/FM/Phono/TV Combo Unit that was something he had I guess bought years ago to restore, but I'm not sure if he ever got around to restoring it electrically or not or if it just sat around collecting dust. I'm wondering if there's anything in particular I should look out for when attempting to restore this unit electricallly or if I should just go about working on this unit like I did with my old Meck/Philharmonic TV and just replace a few caps at a time and just test it out as I go? Was this TV known to drive tubes hard or was it easy on tubes? Also how was the flyback transformer on this set and the Hi-voltage section in general?

This is the first Philco TV from this time period I've ever worked on and so I'm not sure how the early Philco TVs are to work on compared to say Zenith or the Meck I previously Worked on thats from the same time period, I have worked on one other Philco TV, a Philco Townhouse, but that was from almost 15 years after this TV was made and so the chassis was quite a bit different.

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