Majestic 130A

[mkoser]

Hello,

Just today I picked up at Majestic 130A cabinet radio for $30. $30 is my absolute MAX for any old junk, so as you can tell, I was pretty happy to get it.

The cabinet is in really good shape. Someone has done some backyard refinishing on it, but it looks ok for now. No missing pieces and the only damage is to one leg (that I bumped the corner of the living room door with....)

The seller, who obviously doesn't know anything about old electronics, bought a schematic with the intention of getting it going. He told me that he got it for free and plugged it in and it didn't work. He did the same for me. All the tubes glow, and there is a very faint AC hum at the speaker, but that's it.

I took that 70 pound chassis out of it and was going to jump into replacing caps, but then quickly learned that all the caps are in cans, buried in tar. Nice.

Anyone ever recap one of these sets and have some advice for me? My 1928 RCA was a million times easier to figure out...

I have the copy of the schematic he gave me, and a bare bones schematic in my 1936 original radio service book. It's too late and I'm too tired to attempt to figure out what wires go to which caps tonight...

Thanks,

MK