[gadget73]

Well I got her up to full power, and it works. Also fixed the volume control issue, the big rotary switch thing for the remote functions was turned all the way over to vol down / off. I manually rotated it away from that and the controls all work normally. I was pulling in a station from Pittsburgh using just a length of speaker wire hung from the overhang outside my workshop. Pittsburgh is 242 miles from me, so all in all, I'd say its got good ears. Seems to have a nice voice too. I had the speaker just sitting on the table but it sounded decent. I imagine it would sound much cleaner in the cabinet. I ran through all the bands, and was able to pull in something on all three, including a preset on the remote mode.

Its got a hum, and its got all original caps in there, so its definitely going to need electrical restoration. Needs some wiring work as well to replace severely deteriorated original wiring. About half the tubes have been replaced with random ones. 2 Cunningham tubes, a Sylvania JAN tube, couple Raytheons as well. Not sure if it actually cooked them, or someone was just in there replacing stuff for the heck of it at some point.


I also dug through that box of tubes. Not much special, looks like mostly used tubes. I now have about a half dozen 5U4 tubes though, as well as a few other rectifiers, so it looks like I won't need to buy any diodes for a while if I do any projects. Was thinking about building one of those AM tube transmitter deals that I've seen plans for, the kind that was based on some schematic for a portable record player. Might couple that to a cd player or something so I can listen to actual music on my nice vintage set once I get it done. It probably won't be for quite some time though.