[462ron]

Ok, got to spend some time on the AK and had my first snag. The 200A detector was dead, filament out. I figured I had nothing to lose so I tried heating and resoldering the filament pins and now it lights. Not having ever worked on a TRF set before, I had no idea what to expect from it as far as performance goes but I was rather disappointed in it. The one station that I get here from 50 miles away usually comes in very strong but I couldn’t find it. I did get one station though. I had a nagging feeling that the tuning caps I transplanted were the problem as they had 2 more fins than the originals even though the RF transformers measure the same uh from my set and the parts set. I swapped the tuning caps back and it works better. There is a lot of range in trying to set the outer caps to synchronize to the main tuning cap. I will need to try with my signal generator and see if I can dial this in better. It’s hard to know exactly where a station should be on the dial or a signal from the generator as this only has a 0-100 dial scale! If I get this set tuned up better then the next step will be to experiment with changing the detector from a grid leak to a diode detector using a 1N34 or some such diode!

Ron