Re-Radio

Here's a nice, small footprint Philco. It's a solid case instead of the usual fiber-board back.

Front view:

Back view.

Unwrapped the cord.

It's held together by two screws in the back, so taking them out was the first step.

Once the screws were removed, the front pulls out.

The front removed. Interesting, because everything attaches to the front panel.

Circuit board attached to the front panel with two screws. I'd already removed one (on th eleft of this photo).

Circuit board removed.

Speaker off now too and the front panel cleaned up. The discoloration is from the heat of the tubes. Looking above, you can see the speaker was held on by rubber grommets.

Here's the front panel and the rear case. You can see the knobs in the upper right.

If you look above at the front case, you can see the posts that the grommets where on that held in the original speaker. The original speaker was against the front of the case, but the new speaker I want to use needs to attach to the top of the posts. so I need a template. I used foam board and the old speaker to make a template.

I cut out a square of the foam board just a bit bigger than the old speaker, then used a Sharpies to trace around it for the liens to cut out.

First foam template in place. Because of the height of them posts, I needed three of them.

Second template in place.

And the third and final one. The posts were different heights too. It took three foam board templates to be as thick as the tallest two posts.

This is the second speaker I want to attached to the inside of the case. It will emit sound to the rear, like most of the other radios I make.

I used Goop to attached the spacer to the speaker and then the whole deal to the inside of the radio case. Notice the hole I drilled for the Bluetooth receiver/amp.

I clipped the electric cord close to the plug attached to the back of the case, then drilled a whole through the remaining plug and feed the power cord from the converter through.