01-22-2014, 04:05 PM
I recently restored a 118MX. I listened to it for several hours a day for a couple of weeks. It played perfectly. One day last week, it suddenly quit playing. The shadow meter was very narrow no matter where the dial was set. I could pick up one SW station, very faintly.
So, I pulled the tubes and checked them. No problem. Pulled the chassis and started going through resistors and generally eyeballing everything. I could see nothing wrong and everything checked out good on the DMM.
Today, I pulled the speaker out of the cabinet so I could get serious and check voltages and actually repair the radio. I turned it on... and it plays perfectly. Voltages are fine and nothing seems out of order. I've been listening to it for an hour now, but it is still on the bench.
I hate to reinstall everything in the cabinet, then have to go through this again. Any ideas of what could have caused it quit?
So, I pulled the tubes and checked them. No problem. Pulled the chassis and started going through resistors and generally eyeballing everything. I could see nothing wrong and everything checked out good on the DMM.
Today, I pulled the speaker out of the cabinet so I could get serious and check voltages and actually repair the radio. I turned it on... and it plays perfectly. Voltages are fine and nothing seems out of order. I've been listening to it for an hour now, but it is still on the bench.
I hate to reinstall everything in the cabinet, then have to go through this again. Any ideas of what could have caused it quit?
The artist formerly known as Puhpow! 8)
