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OK, so a little update: This radio had been working like a champ for the past week and a half and then today I was listening to it and the stations were bleeding over onto each other on the upper end of the dial and so I turned it off and went to turn it back on to see if it had cleared up the issue and for some reason or another I can't get it to turn on anymore, and I noticed that the power switch was a little finicky sometimes and would require me to turn the power knob a couple of times before it would finally turn on, but now its not turning on at all period except for a little crackling noises when I would turn the power switch on and off several times and then turn it on and wait for it to warm up, but I'm not getting any audio.
I'm thinking its the power switch, because I have a Philco 116B that's done the same thing with its power knob, except instead of sticking in the off position like this one seems to be doing it sticks in the on position.
and the switch that this farm radio uses has 2 sets of contacts in it rather than one set like your traditional AC power switches, one set of contacts is for powering on the B+ power and one is for turning on the A+ (Filiment) power and I'm not sure where I would get a new switch like that or if I could take the switch apart and clean the contacts and lubricate them and see if I could get the switch freed up and working again.
And no its not the batteries because I just installed a set of freshly recharged "D" batteries in the "A" Battery pack and the "B" batteries are still putting out a solid 89.5 Volts DC.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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