[proftrussell]

Great comments.

I have a tinkering bench at my office, and that's where Little Phil is right now. I will have to comb through these comments and look at the machine.

I think the resistance on the field goal is 1680 ohm. That's from memory, but I checked both LittlePhil and FrankenPhil, and they were the same.

I can, say, however, that I think hantavirus killed Gene Hackman's wife. I'm hoping the radioactivity from the bomb blasts killed the virus. I have cleaned the case out.

As for "Electronic, electrical and mechanical systems work on smoke. How do I know this? Because when you let the smoke out, the device stops working." On Sunday, I heard this for the very first time from my cousin, who is a mechanic who works on Jags and Rolls Royces. I let him know that there had been plenty of smoke.

Today, I replaced three paper capacitors and a resistor and managed to keep the smoke inside the wires and components. I found out that doing one thing at a time is actually kind of hard, because the next thing you know, there's an old wire from the 1940s that needs replacing. But, I got it done by proceeding slowly and also by confirming wiring by looking at FrankenPhil.

I'll look at the original field coil, cone-free original speaker tomorrow to see if I can understand just where to attach a temporary PM speaker. A little Jensen speaker came in the case with FrankenPhil, so I think the former owner was able to generate sound.

This is fun!