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Originally Posted by init4fun
 Thank You Tom , I appreciate the help with the signal seek feature , I had the caddys with it , but most of my other , non GM cars back in those days were things like Mustangs and one really fast Road Runner . Go fast cars never had the luxury appointments like the pricier caddys and Lincolns had . As a funny aside , the white 61 in my photo had the auto dimming high beams and believe it or not the unit that reacted to the phototube's input had 2 vacuum tubes in it ! I know most folks know of the tube car radios , but to see tubes doing other functions like the auto dimming lights was a kinda cool discovery when I first opened the unit and saw the tubes . They had the "Guide" logo on them that you were discussing in your thread about your car . Congrats for it , BTW , I hope you get great service out of it . 
And as to lubricating anything in these old car radios , I would do nothing without first speaking to the guy over at ARF who rebuilds classic car radios , I don't remember his name but he had an avatar of a 60's Tbird trunk full of old car radios ... |
Tube based auto dimming lights...Wow that is really cool! The auto dimmer module on my Lincoln from the light sensor to the output, with the exception of user sensitivity control, is all SS and potted to keep prying mechanics fingers out of it. I've yet to verify whether that sensor module still works, but even if it does not I'm happy just to have the lights responding to foot switch properly as they now do. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy that wonderbar.