05-25-2022, 09:22 PM
A bit of progress today. I pulled the tuning cap out and it still showed 480 ohms between the rotor and stator so I did some vigorous cleaning with alcohol and cotton swabs and started to see the resistance increase to several hundred Kohms. More cleaning and I finally got it to show open as it should. It turns out the culprit was dirt, grime, or perhaps the aluminum "stalactites" that MrFixr55 mentioned. The place that I saw the changes ocurring is shown in the photo below:
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jf5v7xwy60a9ty....jpg?raw=1]
The weather was nice here today so I used the rest of the day to spray some cabinets and do some lawn work so I haven't actually put the tuning cap back in to see if that solves the oscillator problem or not.
The cabinet for this set is coming along. I got it stripped, toned, and a couple layers of clear on it so far.
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykyjsjbuzbhx88....jpg?raw=1]
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jf5v7xwy60a9ty....jpg?raw=1]
The weather was nice here today so I used the rest of the day to spray some cabinets and do some lawn work so I haven't actually put the tuning cap back in to see if that solves the oscillator problem or not.
The cabinet for this set is coming along. I got it stripped, toned, and a couple layers of clear on it so far.
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ykyjsjbuzbhx88....jpg?raw=1]
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