"I thing the part tht dave is refering to is the retainer spring that holds the domed glass into the bezel,
I made this for my Philly a couple of years ago
https://ehscott.ning.com/forum/topics/philharmionic-bezel-wire"
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1938 Philly BOL Dial
Started this discussion. Last reply by mike hadley yesterday. 15 Replies 0 Likes
Made a locale purchase of this 1938 Philharmonic been a collector of consoles since the 90's this is the first Scott to come across. I see there has been a discussion already about the dial. Let me…Continue
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"If anyone has an original long shaft on//off toggle switch let me know, I saw the old threads from 5 years ago about members buying some NOS off of EB in lots of 10 and having extras. My only other choice is to go with this one pictured, hate to do…"
"Hi David the zig zag spring holding the bezel to the cabinet is there and I do know what you're talking about on the hardened steel circular retainer that holds it in the bezel Silvertone bezels from 1936 used the same style fastener kind of…"
"The hole in the front panel someone drilled and relocated the on/off toggle switch. Looks like the original long shaft switch failed and was replaced with what they had in stock a short shaft, it was too shallow for the side mount, the new one put…"
"Hi Kent reading through the instruction manual they mention installing the crystal into the dial bezel, so I'm guessing both the pointer sets and the BOL dials had crystals mounted inside the bezels ii front of the flat glass dial scales? It…"
"Yes - meaning the dial bezel mounted on the cabinet - not the receiver - and is shallow concave glass mounted into the bezel as Norman says. The General Cement 7 3/4 inch dial crystal #72 is a good fit.
if your cabinet mounted bezel is missing…"
"To clarify, the glass cover on clocks is often called a crystal. The Philharmonic most definitely had a 7-3/4 inch shallow domed dial cover in the bezel.
Norman"
"While my initial thoughts are this is just a 7 knob B of L set that had a readily available dial glass replacement, the May '38 date is just too early. Looking at the chassis underside, this is definitely an early Philharmonic. I am…"
"There is no crystal used in any of the Philharmonic sets...the dial face is just a large glass plate. I would not remove the glass, you could break it and there isn't anything to learn behind it anyway. The Philly BOL dial drives are all the…"
"Hi David thanks for your help, the red TV scale goes to 60. The 4 wood knobs I thought I saw on later models when doing a google search I'll see if I can find them again. I will remove the dial scale and see if there are any clues behind it.…"
"Does appear to be a pointer dial model that was updated to the later BOL dial with logging scale - which dial was announced late 1939 for the new 1940 Philharmonic. Scott could and sometime did update a model to later developments if requested…"
"Hi Ken thanks for the reply, pic attached of the warranty certificate, what's strange is it's one family owned. I bought this from the nephew of the original owner, and he's has had it in his possession for the last 20 years. He…"
"Ray -
Yes, it is a puzzling set. The red band and logging scale is from a much later Philly. BB-176 should have been a pointer dial set when built, it is very close to being in the first thousand Philharmonic sets built. The solder joints on the…"
1938 Philly BOL Dial
Made a locale purchase of this 1938 Philharmonic been a collector of consoles since the 90's this is the first Scott to come across. I see there has been a discussion already about the dial. Let me know your thoughts on this one. The warrant certificate is dated 5/5/38 and the cabinet has an engraved date of June of 1938 under the lid from what I suspect done by the cabinet maker. The amp other than the tubes and two electrolytics is all original. The receiver is also all original other than an…See More
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