Rebuilding a Hoffman 610

[Eric H]

I finished up the Motorola 105 was working on so I decided to start on this cute little Hoffman, I think it's a model 610, the chassis is a model 140.

I was able to coax a feeble picture from this set when I first got it several years ago, there was some evidence that it had been serviced up till the 1980's.

It's doesn't work now, even after replacing a lot of the paper caps I get nothing except a little high voltage, probably the filters have died completely by this time, I placed an order for caps with Justradios on Friday right before I left on a trip to N.Y.C. (My birthday present!)

The chassis is stamped with the date of Jun 15 1949.

The early Hoffmans always seem to be a very high quality set, right up there with RCA and Dumont, but then most of the parts seem to be RCA...