Ts4d Motorola

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by timmy

Maybe I should look at the other sockets maybe another one may show some carbon track, who knows at this point. For a hum I would think it would be obvious if the socket was bad but much higher voltages I would assume would show something on a socket but this problem don't seem like much ac is getting in somewhere because it's only affecting audio and not an image problem.

I would think a socket would carbon-track only if water was spilled on the chassis and then it would have to be operating at the time.
After all this discussion, I decided to pull the 7" Motorola off the shelf. I never restored the set, but I did the preliminary checking of the condition of the set.
Of course, the set works very poorly and I don't remember what I did to check the basics. IIRC, I bridged the 'lytics and installed silicon diodes to replace the seleniums. I didn't do anything to it but plug it in. It hummed and it has a dim display on the screen.
BTW, this set was dated Feb, 1949 and uses 1/2 of a 12SN7 for the 1st audio.
More much later!