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Originally Posted by old_coot88
Electrically, a few feet of wire looped around in the same configuration will do the same job. Unadjustable built-in antennas were never intended to 'work' anyway, except in very strong signal areas.
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I figured they weren't that great. I will probably rebuild this one with cardboard and new foil just to make it nice even if it doesn't work great and I will be the only person who ever sees it. I am kinda strange that way.
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Originally Posted by MadMan
Foil tape would be awesome, except the adhesive on the tape would probably be too much of an insulator to effectively connect two pieces of metal or tape.
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That is what I was thinking as well.
By the way, I just wanted to say WOOHOO!! I spent the last week working on this 1950 Mercury that I could not get hardly any service info except one page in Riders, it has been broken since 1965 or so according to the previous owner. I did the first power on tonight and had no high voltage, I spent all night testing the flyback, checking wires. I was pulling my hair out and starting to question myself when I found a broken wire coming off the transformer that was making good enough contact to get voltage readings but not good enough to power the set. I fixed that and powered it on again and boom FULL bright raster!!