[Tubejunke]

I officially dub myself a dumb as* tech on this thread to the whole world. It took the purchase of a whole other Transoceanic to figure it out. The only thing I was right about was my saying that I felt that one little thing was all that was holding me back. It usually is anyway.

So I bought this other unit and removed the chassis for inspection, cleaning and/or repair. I powered it up and actually worked on broadcast at something like 70 volts. Somewhere in my excitement I unplugged the headphone jack wiring and powered it back up and OH NO! It was dead just like the other one. What happened? What had I done? All I did was unplug that... OMG! Plug it back in and it's alive, it's alive! Great!

So then I remembered that I never took the jack out of the case of the first set! So I go and retrieve it; plug it in and,,, well you guys know the rest. Now the chassis did have bad electrolytics costing me several tubes and the wacky voltages.

What stinks sort of now is that I put the second chassis that worked and all original back in a nice, black case which is the one that I plan on keeping. I really should put the eventual recap back in the keeper and the original in a brown leather case that I have that is some kind rarity that collectors go bonkers over. That one I plan on selling once I get a high speed WWW connection and start an Ebay store to move some of this electric gold sitting around. It's crazy to me what the things go for when found in a rather ugly leather case. On top of that any damaged parts can't be subbed by other parts as the brown case bears all brown parts like the Wavemagnet antenna and even the knobs, which luckily I have. Unfortunately, my BROWN plastic face-plate looks melted right where it says Zenith, so that will detract from the value. I have a near mint face-plate, but it is black and silver. That just won't due! LOL! Maybe a brownie will show up on the bay.....