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Philco 47-1230 - Schematic Help?

Harlon

Harlon

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Hello,
I made a foray into getting my wife's acceptance of my new hobby. Bought a Philco standup AM-FM-Shortwave w/TT that she liked today. It's driven by a 47-230 Philco Amp. I've been searching for a copy of the schematic and service paper work but haven't had much luck.
Does anyone on the forum have a copy perchance?
Any help will be appreciated.
 
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Amazing Sidebar. The 47-230 outputs were a pair of date code 9-22, that's 22nd week of 1949, Raytheon 6V6GTs. I plugged them into one channel of my V-M 6V6 amp. Not only do they work they sound wonderful. The build quality of the technology of our, or mine anyway, parents and grandparents generations just blow away today's production. I'm playing 66 year old tubes in a 53 year old amplifier that's bone stock save the new electrolytics I swapped in last week, and it sounds excellent.
I love this stuff.
 
Nice set. The dial scale looks a lot like my 48-1290 (which was top of the line, unfortunately in a fugly squarish postwar cabinet that no one loves but me). Your cabinet is more reminiscent of the prewar Philcos like the 41-295.

What's it have for a TT? Mine has a D10A with an early magnetic cart...with a 48 gram tracking force! A record lathe.
 
Ever see one of Philco's early 78/33 machines? two tone arms, and the changer only worked on the 78 rpm side, it was straight manual on the 33 side. They were also doing the Beam Of Light pickups in the late pre-war and very early post-war stuff. That was an interesting design, the needle vibrated a mirror, which varied the amount of light reflected into a photo sensor from a lamp in the end of the tonearm. It was probably more compliant than a lot of other systems of the day, but those arms are chunky as all get out, and the photo cells die. apparently it can all be rebuilt but its definitely one of those ideas that never quite caught on.
 
toxcrusadr said:
What's it have for a TT? Mine has a D10A with an early magnetic cart...with a 48 gram tracking force! A record lathe.
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This one is kind of a Frankenstein's Console. Somewhere along the way they ditched the D10 and put in the amp, TT and passive preamp controls from a three channel Motorola console. Other than the fact the radio was just for show, it's a pretty clever retrofit. My goal is to get the Philco running and put in a better quality TT controlled by the Philco. I want to be able to player my old albums without plowing fields in them.

I hope to remove the Motorola, get it working and pass it along to someone else.

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huh, thats actually not terribly done. I might actually consider keeping the Motorola changer if you're not totally opposed to it. Its a Voice of Music. Not amazing, but you can get parts for them and its certainly not the most awful thing.
 
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