Philco 40-185 Floor Radio Deal

[Hi-Fi-Mogul]

This is a really nice looking Philco, with new grille
cloth provided.

At $25, I hope someone grabs it to treat it well
after it is restored.

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[electra225]

I have a model 40 180 that has the same chassis as that model. It is a great performer. Someone should grab that one.....

[William]

Somebody grabbed it, it is not marked SOLD!

Bill

[Conelrad]

If anyone local wants it, I have a working chassis & 12" speaker from a '41 (same chassis) for free. I can ship it for cost, too.

D

[TC Chris]

I've got the chassis, speaker, and antenna too, probably from the '41 version. My uncle had built it into my grandparents' breakfast room. Long ago, before the house was sold, I spotted the cabinet stored in the enclosed storage area under the big front porch, but had no way to move it back to MI from AL. I've always wondered if the new owners left it there.

Chris Campbell

[Conelrad]

Mine is a radio-phono combo. The TT isn't functional, but the AM & SW work OK. Someone ahead of my ownership did a recap, but it now needs the switches treated with Deoxit.

[electra225]

The discussion of this Philco radio chassis apparently jinxed mine!

I bragged about how good of a performer my 40-180 is. It has the same chassis as the radio we are talking about here. I fired mine up this morning and the tubes lit but otherwise it was as dead as Jonah's goat. (According to my grandpa, it "don't get no deader than that"). Mine has had a finicky function switch for probably ten years. So, I pulled the chassis, speaker, antenna and did what I should have done years ago, I cleaned all the controls. I found that I only replaced one filter cap and nothing else. The other filter cap is still original (!!?) as are all the coupling caps. I found a couple .003uf@1000 volt caps I don't have. So, in spite of the traditionally salty filter caps Philco is so famous for, this set has been running with almost all original parts all this time. This is the radio that was painted John Deere green before I got it. Mine could use a set of pushbuttons and a good cabinet refinishing job. I saved the photofinish around the speaker and got all the green paint off, but that's as far as I got.