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This day didn't start well, I went to transfer my vinyls to tapes only to discover that the cassettes I bought from a vendor (great tape - BASF super chrome dioxide put in their cassettes) have cracks and sone debris are in the packing box that came 2 weeks ago. I have yet to talk to them.

Anyway, my mood was low and I decided to proceed with the radio.
Cleaned the bench that was filthy, vacuumed about a jarful of debris of rubber insulation from the radio.

Checked the transformer. Good. Realized the pilot lights were not wired: I threaded the wire but did not fix the sockets. Took me 10 minutes to fix the sockets. Put the lamps in, one works, one doesn't. Swapped them places, then the one that worked kept working and  the other smoked the filament. What do you know, a bad lamp. The next one worked fine.

Then I realized I need to have the speaker on the bench. Well, I need it out anyway - will have to change the cloth.
Took me about 30 minutes to understand how to take the speaker board out.
Connected the speaker, checked the B+, saw it rise and droop, touched the grid of the 42, heard it buzz.
Switched to the BC, and quickly got the local Jersey Shore station. This speaker rules! I didn't expect the sound this big from any speaker outside the cabinet.

Well, need to clean the band switch, possibly the volume ctl, and tone ctl contacts.

I am not sure what to do with FM circuit, it is the old FM and will not work. To build converter....maybe in the future.

Alignment is pending. Plus more thorough check, many radios will work with the 1st RF stage not working. Though alignment will tell if it is OK.

Well, something good today.