Well I got it going. Recap. The filter caps were toast for sure. the selenium was toast . The 50c5 had a short. And two other tubes were really weak. The 33 ohm fusible resister was gone, so I replaced it with a 10watt 150 ohm to bring the voltage into the correct range after replacing the selenium with a 1n4007. Cleaned the pots, and fired it up. Yep it sucks! I actually thought only the am worked till I hooked it up to a ground and a short antenna. Lot's of suckers wasted money on these. Including myself. Well....I only paid 5 bucks plus the parts. Still paid too much. Oh, and I also put a inline fuse in. At least I got some practice on trouble shooting.
I will set this up someplace and let my son have fun listening to it. Get him hooked. In the fall we made a crystal radio and he had fun. It's set up next to his bed.
01-19-2009, 10:29 PM
Hybrid Mode
