[compucat]

It has been a while since I worked on this set. MySaturdays have been taken up with other things and it has just been sitting. Today I decided to tackle the tuner. I am going to have to paint the chassis as my attempts to clean it are removing the plating and now it looks worse than just dirty. The tuner is a separate assembly bolted to the chassis and connected by a few wires. I thought unhooking the tuner and working just on that would be a good project for today. I took note of what wires go where and marked them since three of them are the same color. I ended up painting many of the metal housing parts because they would not clean up well. The silver paint I bought said metalic on the can which I assumed to be metal colored. It turns out to be metal flake. I'm not going to use this on the chassis. I will get some flat paint for that. It turned out alright nonetheless.

I have never seen a tuner assembly like this. The part with the detent is a separate removeable piece. The whole thing has incredible redundant shielding. You really have to disassemble it to clean the contacts. The tubes have individual shields plus the top of the tuner has a cover. There is no way you can just squirt some Deoxit through a hole in the shield and be sure of reaching all the wafer switches. I took the whole thing down, cleaned all the moving parts, regreased with some white lithium grease and put it back together. I am replacing the few parts on the back of the tuner terminal strip. I really want this set to be a good reliable performer.

My wife does not like the light colored finish on the cabinet. She says if I refinish it in a dark color I can put it in the living room. That suit me fine as It needs refinishing anyway, I prefer dark woods and I can park my 1937 Philco 37-610 radio on it. I have a DTV converter hooked to an agile modulator so this set will get over the air content the old fashioned way. I am also going to hook a Roku box to it for Netflix and Hulu. I am setting a goal to have this set fully restored andin daily service by Labor Day.

I will post some pics from my laptop. The iPad won't let me do it for some reason.