[RitchieMars]

Well, so much for my attempt at aligning the Admiral. I get my Zenith apart and get everything ready, and the Zenith's AM goes dead. I put it back where I had it, hooked up the external antenna and still nothing. Now my Zenith is just static and a few pop's and crackles just like my Admiral. I was picking up stations pretty decent on AM just earlier tonight.

Even after I replaced the wax capacitors, I'm pretty sure everything else in my Zenith is about done. It has worked well the few times I've used it of lately, but it's started to have some crackles and pops for a minute or two which would clear up after a few minutes. I tested a couple of resistors just awhile ago and found a few that were a pretty good bit off. There's a bunch of bubbly ceramic capacitors and a big "black beauty" cap, one of those marked with colored bands. It also has one of those weird selenium rectifiers. Things are a bit difficult for me to reach in that tiny little radio, so I don't particularly look forward to working on it again. My Admiral is very roomy and much cleaner in comparison.

Well, there's still the K731. I haven't checked to see how it picked up AM...