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53-960 help with dial string
#1

I've got this radio electronically restored, and it works GREAT. But I've got issues with this oddball dial cord string arrangement.

I have service package for this radio, and it has a stringing diagram, but for some reason I'm just not reckoning it out. Does anyone have one of these that can take a few pics from various angles of the dial string, with special consideration to the part that goes around the tuning shaft (I realize that the tuning shaft works independent coil tuning for the spread bands)?

Thank you in advance.
#2

Brenda Ann
Yes I can see that pointer string diagram doesn't work. The lowest roller has three in on one side and only one out on the other. On first impressions I would try moving the right side pointer string to other side of the lowest roller.

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#3

Here's a doctored picture of it. Sorry It's a little crude. Now it makes sense to me. You can see where I cut out the old line and drew in the new route. The strings just make a figure eight around the knob and the variable tuner.


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#4

If you post some good pics of the radio I might be able to make sense of the drawing. The tuner shaft area is the part of interest. From the drawings it looks like there are three different strings or are there two different styles? Just how many different pointers are there?

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#5

After looking at the drawings for awhile it's starting to make some sense. Lets see if I have this right. There are three strings and the hard part is the main tuner.

The left drawing is for the pointer and is the front view.

The middle one is for the band indicator and is the easy one.


  The one on the right is the tuning condenser drive with the other two combined.

It looks like the knob drive shaft moves the pointer and tuner with different strings.

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#6

So the condenser drive cord (the one with the ten turns) starts and ends on the knob shaft.  And it just winds back and forth meanwhile wrapping around the tuner condenser shaft.

The pointer cord wraps the knob shaft the 1-1/2 turns shown but both ends are at the tension spring.

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#7

I still think that pointer drawing might be wrong. I think the cord comes from the upper right pulley and then comes down around the right side of the knob shaft then does a figure 8 around the condenser shaft.

Clearly some engineer majored in dial cord stringing.

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