Yet Another Transoceanic

[Winky Dink]

I did the broadcast band alignment, repeating the process several times in whole or in part, and I have a very good result. Then I aligned the five shortwave bands with limited success, but I haven't listened yet during the more favorable times.

Two problems cropped up during the process.

First, two antenna coil slugs were frozen. I sprayed in some old-fashioned oily tuner cleaner (Radio Shack), waited a couple of hours, and tried again with a good-fitting jeweler's screw driver. They moved.

Second, one oscillator coil was problematic. I could find a spot with good signal, but if I tried to adjust it, even the lightest touch in either direction turned off the tone completely. I'm wondering if the slug is actually broken, but I'm not going to remove it without a replacement part,.

Question: "Rock the tuning gang" is advised for aligning the antenna and detector coils. From what I've read, my understanding is that after setting the oscillator coil, I look for a second signal peak with slight movement of the tuner, then do the adjustments in the new position. Then, I leave the oscillator slug in its previously set position?

Looking forward to battery operation, I made a battery connector to fit the chassis socket. It turned out good.


https://flic.kr/p/2hJx7w7

I made it out of junk. Still haven't spent a penny on the restoration. (That's not actually true because I'll eventually replenish my supply of resistors and caps.)



https://flic.kr/p/2hJuvyY

I was also annoyed by having to split the line cord to get it into the chassis. It was unsightly. Where the two holes are, I made one hole in the brown insulator, slightly smaller than the metal opening, and put in a half-inch snap bushing. Its outside diameter fit perfectly within the metal opening. Then I stuffed in a too-large grommet which holds the AC cord securely.


https://flic.kr/p/2hKsN2U

I'd really appreciate your advice on tuner rocking.

Thanks,
Henry