19-12-2019, 11:20 AM
Trevor, as noted in my first post, I have, over a few years, carried out a complete repair, including replacing all the wax caps., and the reservoir & smoothing caps. (This last repair could be easily reversed as I fitted two modern electrolytics underneath the originals, which are still in situ, but disconnected. ) My feeling was that 80+ years old Electrolytics would most likely be leaky and down in capacitance, which, from memory, they were. Although this is the first pre-war Philips and TRF radio I've tackled, over the years I've repaired several 1930s superhets, and not had problems with any of those. As with many head-scratching faults it's probably something simple, such as switched sockets not swiitching. Regarding the layout I was careful to keep it as close to the original as possible, including leaving all the internal wiring as bare tinned Copper, and disturbing as little as possible when fitting replacement components.
