11-27-2010, 11:52 AM
I have a 41-285 that I picked up from a guy on craigslist. There were only 2 tubes in the chassis at the time. I originally picked this radio up as a fun woodworking project to restore the cabinet to its original and I was going to gut it and put new components inside. But when I went online to see what the original finish looked like I came across all these sites and then I knew that if I didn't give this radio another chance at life it would be a travesty. This will be my first restoration of anything electrical. So far I have done the following:
1. obtained schematics from Chuck
2. lots and lots of reading on this forum
2. ordered all replacement capacitors and shrink tubing for the old rubber wires (received yesterday)
3. obtained replacement tubes off of ebay (last two came in today)
All was going to plan until I received my last tube today the 84/6Z4 rectifier tube. As many of you probably know this tube has 5 pins. When I went to place it in the socket to my surprise the socket had been replaced with an 8 pin socket. I was beginning to think I might have been mistaken but since I've been going over the schematics a million times for my game plan on repairing this beast I knew it was the right part and someone had to have switched it out. Sure enough when I turned the chassis over that socket is noticeably a replacement. Does anyone know why anyone would have done this and what tube they would have used? I'm kinda at a loss here. The only thing I can think of to fix this is to find a five pin socket and put it back to its original state. Any ideas? Maybe someone has come across this type of mod before.
1. obtained schematics from Chuck
2. lots and lots of reading on this forum
2. ordered all replacement capacitors and shrink tubing for the old rubber wires (received yesterday)
3. obtained replacement tubes off of ebay (last two came in today)
All was going to plan until I received my last tube today the 84/6Z4 rectifier tube. As many of you probably know this tube has 5 pins. When I went to place it in the socket to my surprise the socket had been replaced with an 8 pin socket. I was beginning to think I might have been mistaken but since I've been going over the schematics a million times for my game plan on repairing this beast I knew it was the right part and someone had to have switched it out. Sure enough when I turned the chassis over that socket is noticeably a replacement. Does anyone know why anyone would have done this and what tube they would have used? I'm kinda at a loss here. The only thing I can think of to fix this is to find a five pin socket and put it back to its original state. Any ideas? Maybe someone has come across this type of mod before.
