11-02-2014, 08:12 PM
It's alive!!! 
I had Frank Sinatra playing on the old girl for about 45 minutes.
I finished up replacing the capacitors today, and managed to get it up and running. Still have quite a ways to go, though. I want to put a fuse in the power cord, and the band switch seems a little stiff, to me. Not too bad, but I'm not sure how it is supposed to feel, since I don't have anything to compare it to. I cleaned the contacts the best I could, but they are almost impossible to reach. Had one near disaster when performing the recapping. One of the solder tabs on the on/off/tone potentiometer broke off. It must have been hanging by a thread, because all I did was touch it with the soldering iron. But I managed to solder the lead from the capacitor to the remnants of the tab, and all is well now. There is still a little more touch up work to do on the cabinet. The grill cloth arrived, and it's OK, but I'm still undecided. We'll see.
Not much of a picture, but here it is playing away on the work bench.
[Image: http://www.pbase.com/david_3/image/15808...iginal.jpg]
Oh, I rearranged some stuff on my Pbase account, which is why the other pictures disappeared. I'll try to add a shot of the recapped chassis, tomorrow.
I had Frank Sinatra playing on the old girl for about 45 minutes.
I finished up replacing the capacitors today, and managed to get it up and running. Still have quite a ways to go, though. I want to put a fuse in the power cord, and the band switch seems a little stiff, to me. Not too bad, but I'm not sure how it is supposed to feel, since I don't have anything to compare it to. I cleaned the contacts the best I could, but they are almost impossible to reach. Had one near disaster when performing the recapping. One of the solder tabs on the on/off/tone potentiometer broke off. It must have been hanging by a thread, because all I did was touch it with the soldering iron. But I managed to solder the lead from the capacitor to the remnants of the tab, and all is well now. There is still a little more touch up work to do on the cabinet. The grill cloth arrived, and it's OK, but I'm still undecided. We'll see.
Not much of a picture, but here it is playing away on the work bench.
[Image: http://www.pbase.com/david_3/image/15808...iginal.jpg]
Oh, I rearranged some stuff on my Pbase account, which is why the other pictures disappeared. I'll try to add a shot of the recapped chassis, tomorrow.
