[Ron Ramirez]

After a triple whammy of a back injury from push mowing a very steep bank/ditch, a chemo session, and a fall in my living room resulting in a knee injury...I haven't done much with my T8-14 until this week.

My repro dial scale arrived on October 4. I've set it aside where I know where to find it, as I will not install it until I am finished with electronic restoration, and just before an alignment.

I hate rubber-covered wiring...

   

I had been replacing components and wiring along the back side of the chassis. I restuffed as many of the original caps as I could. Unfortunately a couple had been replaced and these could not be restuffed, so you see the yellow film caps in place of the originals.

The next job is to start replacing rubber-covered wiring in the vicinity of the three coil sections.

   

The oscillator section was easy. But to be able to adequately reach everything in the detector coil and antenna coil sections, I found it worked better to remove the vertical shields which were bolted between sections.

   

In the photo above, I've replaced all of the rubber-covered wiring except those in the vicinity of the antenna coil (top of photo). Since I took that photo, I have replaced those wires as well. There were two .05 uF caps tucked in between coil sections; these, too, were restuffed and reinstalled.

Now it's time to tackle the power supply. Oh, and there are a few wires on top of the chassis needing replacement, as well as a .01 uF cap encased in a metal cylinder mounted to the front of the chassis which will require restuffing and reinstallation.

I've run out of Solen Fast caps, so I ordered a few more from AES. Unfortunately they are being sent via USPS, and the box sat in Tempe/Phoenix for three days before starting to move. So I won't have them before the next chemo session, which is this coming Wednesday.

I will get this radio finished eventually.