Well I did the deed and made a last min snipe for a Drake R-4A receiver. Poor fellow bidders never knew what hit them.....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ME:B:EOAB:US:6
Local seller (under 100miles anyway) so no shipping costs. These usually go for $150 or better and never fail to sell. I have found tons of links for manuals and adjustment procedures, etc. Should be a fun project to fool with. Seller is a ham and generally hams are pretty good at being fair and honest with fellow hams, it's a rule ;-)
Should be fun getting into tip top shape and then maybe think about some hacks for it.
Big problem with the newer decent solid state receivers is that one can't really work on them as far as repairs and upgrades, they are just are too small with those SMD sized devices and custom microprocessor controllers. I decided I wanted something I could fool with without worrying about destroying the thing.
Lefty