The Philco 90 Discovery Tour

The Philco 90 Discovery Tour

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• Philco
• 90
• Discovery
• Tour
• Radio
• Repair
• Vacuum
• Tube

[gbowne1]

I hate when people lose the isolation cans to cover the tubes.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks gbowne1

And tubes plugged into the wrong sockets

[mig189189189]

2nd Part- Unfortunatly in 2000 the old barber died and his son opened a new barber shop in that same place with everything new, and he told me he sold that radio to the oldest customer of the old barber shop and the radio was still working! . I told him it was a story for the Guiness Book of Records! LOL!

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

This one is doing pretty good I still have some testing to do on it. Glad to hear the barber shop radio is still playing and has found a good home. Thanks.

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

i had a thing with the 90 but what I am intersted in is there any thing about the radio my parents bought in 1936 it had like my six tubes what stuck out was the old 80 rectrofir was mounted on thee top of the transformer it was three bands I wold lie to see apicture of the chassie and a thing about repares

[rockangel1967]

@AllAmericanFiveRadio yeah that is what i thought...building a FM radio right now. DIY project

[Arabhacks]

I remove the rectifier, be it tube or selenium, and replace it with a modern diode. I also replace the detector with a modern diode.

Re capping is a given as well as replacing the old wiring and adding modern safety caps and fuses and MOVs, all in the interest of a cooler and safer radio. Other than that I leave everything alone that is within range, quite a reduction in heat and loading with no change in what makes the radio what it is.

[ZmajSnoshaj]

ahaha.... bad field-coil speaker... I don't feel so bad now...

Just kidding.....

Hope you've had better luck at finding a replacement than I have..

[mig189189189]

1st Part- It's a masterpiece from the past!. I remember to see a radio like that at the old barber shop of the town I lived in 1975. It was a Philco and was always turned on from 08:00h A.M. to 08:00 P.M. , 7 days a week!. It was a radio made to last!. I went to that barber shop from 1975 until 1999 and the radio was still there playing.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yes you can do that and I have done that also. Download my book, it is on my YouTube Channel. If I can I just electrically remove the old and install the new ones, it is much easier. Also look for my video on the Monarch radio.