inerlogic
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let's see if this works...
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posted those pictures in another thread, hopefully they don't need to be re-uploaded
anyway, tangentially ham-related, as i'm a ham, and this is a radio...
picked up for cheap as a little project. i want to get a second one, gut it, and rebuild it with new caps and new resistors, new wire.... the whole 9 yards... add a polarized plug, safety capacitor, maybe even a fuse.
once that is aligned and verified as working, i'll probably re-visit this one and do a complete tear down, rebuild.... only 6 capacitors to replace, the resistors all tested within spec, i'm bought new ones just in case, all told the parts and shipping was about $30, i need to buy some caps in bulk... i picked up a spare set of tubes (GE) the original tubes that came with the radio are good, now i have a spare set, NOS, and in that last photo, i've got the thing running on the spares set of tubes to test them out, make sure they work.
i've just moved from my house to an apartment, so i couldn't find my 50/100W soldering gun, and i don't have a de-soldering gun (i want to get a fancy vacuum one) so *some* of the work in this one is sloppier than i'd like, and one of the sockets is broken, i had to fudge a jumper to an unused pin.
it's "good enough" and works, but i want to do it the right way when i have a bit more experience and am less impatient to get to it.
just picked up a heathkit VTVM i need to build probes for, i have a signal generator, i haven't done an IF alignment on the above radio yet though, i only use it to listen to one station, WBSM, and bsm is so close to me... i used to have a toaster that would get wbsm.....
i'm looking out for an RCA WO-33A o-scope to turn into a curve tracer.... so if someone has one with good CRT collecting dust, HMU
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posted those pictures in another thread, hopefully they don't need to be re-uploaded
anyway, tangentially ham-related, as i'm a ham, and this is a radio...
picked up for cheap as a little project. i want to get a second one, gut it, and rebuild it with new caps and new resistors, new wire.... the whole 9 yards... add a polarized plug, safety capacitor, maybe even a fuse.
once that is aligned and verified as working, i'll probably re-visit this one and do a complete tear down, rebuild.... only 6 capacitors to replace, the resistors all tested within spec, i'm bought new ones just in case, all told the parts and shipping was about $30, i need to buy some caps in bulk... i picked up a spare set of tubes (GE) the original tubes that came with the radio are good, now i have a spare set, NOS, and in that last photo, i've got the thing running on the spares set of tubes to test them out, make sure they work.
i've just moved from my house to an apartment, so i couldn't find my 50/100W soldering gun, and i don't have a de-soldering gun (i want to get a fancy vacuum one) so *some* of the work in this one is sloppier than i'd like, and one of the sockets is broken, i had to fudge a jumper to an unused pin.
it's "good enough" and works, but i want to do it the right way when i have a bit more experience and am less impatient to get to it.
just picked up a heathkit VTVM i need to build probes for, i have a signal generator, i haven't done an IF alignment on the above radio yet though, i only use it to listen to one station, WBSM, and bsm is so close to me... i used to have a toaster that would get wbsm.....
i'm looking out for an RCA WO-33A o-scope to turn into a curve tracer.... so if someone has one with good CRT collecting dust, HMU
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