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I have found that there are many things that can be used as gasket material and places like Home Depot are full of them, or better yet your garage. Tire patch stuff is a good idea. Inner tubes work good for lots of things. Hardware stores have a lot of stuff for weather stripping things like doors, air conditioners etc. Simple cardboard has bailed me out a time or two. I just sort of go into McGuyver (television show) mode when it comes to things like that.
And as to modern radio programming, I just wish that I could program a radio to play The Alice's Restaurant Masacree at wake up time. In four part harmony.....
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Other than that the unit works great, and gets really good reception and I know some of the people on here said that this particular model didn't have AFC built in, and because of that its notorious for having drifting issues on the FM Band, but it seems like mine actually might be a later model that might actually have AFC built into it (albeit a very simple AFC Circuit) as I haven't had any issues with drifting on the FM Band on this radio (except for when I first got the unit and first fired it up and went to check the tubes and I found out that the 12AT7 tube that's in the radio was at one point in time replaced with a 12AU7A tube which was completely dead when I tested it and when I replaced the dead 12AU7A tube with a known good 12AT7 of extremely high quality the FM Band came back to life and never drifted since.) The reason why I'm saying that mine is more than likely a later model with at least a simple AFC built in is because there's a date rubber stamped to the radio chassis of October 1962, and as far as I know most AM/FM radios made by Zenith by that time had an AFC circuit of some sort built in to the radio whether it was the simple circuit mentioned in some of the earlier posts on here that was used in the 7 tube radios or if it was the more elaborate AFC Circuit that was utilized in the 8 Tube radios where the AFC Circuit was had its own tube powering it. Either way it seems to me that my radio may be one of the better versions of this particular clock radio model. |
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Perhaps this paint would work for the clock dial:
https://www.amazon.com/Paint-Aurora-...+in+dark+paint not affiliated, jr |
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In addition you likely have: 1-6BJ6 rf amplifier, 2-12BA6 if amplifiers, 1-12AU6 limiter, 1-19T8 fm discriminator/am detector/audio amplifier, 1-35C5 audio output and a selenium rectifier. If it were my set, I would not bother with the luminous paint, or perhaps just paint over the paint on the tips of the hands...it would be very difficult to do the numbers. jr |
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The first models that were changed is when they put the volume control on the left side. The eight tube models were considerably different, AFC using a separate tube, tuned RF stage on both AM&FM, two stages of AM IF and larger speaker and two types of tweeters. I have several models of all their AM-FM models, built through the years. |
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Mine has got a tone control on the side.
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As far as repainting the clock goes, it only had paint on the hands and that was it, and that was what I was thinking of redoing, because of course painting the individual numbers would be a pain in the butt, also it wouldn't be original that way. |
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