[mikethedruid]

Today I shot a second coat of satin poly on the cabinet. Now I have to wait for that to dry, and the cabinet is ready to have the speaker and the guts installed again. This evening I tackled the alignment. With this radio it is not nearly as easy as with most. The actual dial assembly is separate from the chassis, and is only linked to it by the attachment of the pointer clip to the dial cord. I know, what a pain in the butt way to do it! This means one had to make a copy of the dial scale from the service bulletin and tape that to the chassis, then make a temporary pointer from a piece of wire, and use THAT to do the alignment. This would probably be easier if one had the original books rather than a digital copy. One could just trace the one in the book. As it is, I had to print out a copy of the correct size and use that, no simple matter. I wasted about 8 sheets of paper before I got one that was very close. Thank goodness for IRfanview, it allows such adjustments. This is what the dial scale looks like:

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Using the one I made, which is VERY close to the original, checked against the actual dial from the set, I did the alignment tonight. It went pretty well, and I am receiving stations all over all three bands. I am sure that things will be a little bit off when all is said and done, but quite close, and good enough considering. I'm going to let the cabinet dry until tomorrow, then put back the speaker board, the dial assembly, and the chassis, and this one will be done. I'll post pictures of the finished radio when I've got it together.