04-15-2011, 10:45 PM
Hello, Doug: it is lighter than any others that I have seen. But the finish appears to be original. Note that the finish under the doors is much the same as outside, just in better shape. I asked the previous owner about this and he did not believe that it had been moved from the same room it occuppied during it's previous life. He lived in the same house his grandfather lived in, the house was passed to his father and then to him.
HOWEVER, anything is possible with these things. Someone had done an older recap of the electrolytics using paper caps, but they did not do a very good job of it, and I assumed that they had. They basically replaced two electrolytics on either side of the field coil with one large (40mFd) cap on one side of the coil.
The result was that the power transformer smoked when I was listening to it. Shame on me, I usually will take the chassis out of any radio I get in to make sure everything is as it should be.
SO.... know anyone who has an RCA power transformer that would work on a 262 or 263 chassis?
HOWEVER, anything is possible with these things. Someone had done an older recap of the electrolytics using paper caps, but they did not do a very good job of it, and I assumed that they had. They basically replaced two electrolytics on either side of the field coil with one large (40mFd) cap on one side of the coil.
The result was that the power transformer smoked when I was listening to it. Shame on me, I usually will take the chassis out of any radio I get in to make sure everything is as it should be.
SO.... know anyone who has an RCA power transformer that would work on a 262 or 263 chassis?
