Early 1950s Capehart AM/FM/Phono Console For Sale locally

[Electronic M]

Maybe that cut out of circuit lamp socket was shorted, and now that it is back in the heaters are not lighting because of the short.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Maybe that cut out of circuit lamp socket was shorted, and now that it is back in the heaters are not lighting because of the short.

Hmm, didn't think about that. unfortunately the way they made that backlight setup for the tuner dial pointer assembly its near impossible to replace that socket...

Also I should add that none of the pilot lamps are lighting up either and with this being a cold chassis setup (it has a power transformer) it should be able to still light up the pilot lamps even without the rectifier tube in place but even without the rectifier tube in place (and even with it in place) the pilot lamps aren't lighting up. Would one shorted pilot lamp socket cause all of the pilot lamps to not light?

Also the other thing is that the pilot light that was cut out of the circuit was for backlighting the FM Dial portion of the Dial pointer assembly not the AM which means that if I took that back out of the circuit again and it started working again I wouldn't be able to see where the dial pointer was on the FM Dial because of how they made this radio.