[MrFixr55]

Hi Paul, 

Prayers for your friend and his family!!

Our church choir has a tradition of singing at the funeral mass or any member or members family member who passes away.  We do at least 3 of these per year.  The average age of members of this choir is 65.

By keeping this set and either restoring the set or having the set restored, you honor your friend.  Remember, he wanted to fix this set for you.  Every time that I handle an antique radio that either was given to me as a child or that I purchased, I say a prayer for the person who gave it to me who has since deceased or the person who originally owned the radio that I bought at auction, as these people are most likely also deceased.  (Most of my radios are between 70 and 102 years old.)

I don't have a 6T but I have a 6BT (The 2V farm version with the same cabinet and bands.  I also have a 5T7.  Both of these are 1936 - 37 vintage.  Other than the grid cap wire, I do not remember any of it being plastic.  The warnings from the experts on this Phorum notwithstanding, these sets are usually easy fixes.  I recapped both the 6T7 and 6BT.  I am not one to usually stuff caps, but on one of these (I can't remember which one), the paper tube comes off the caps very easily and they may be the easiest paper caps to stuff.  The electrolytics require the procedures described so well by so many.  I have not bothered stuff the electrolytics, I usually install the new ones somewhere in the same area. 

The 6T circuit is similar in design to my Zenith 6S27 / 6S52 chassis.  The difference is that the 2 diodes are wired separately for detector vs AVC in the RCA.  In the Zenith, the 2 diodes in the 6H6 are parallel.  For some reason (biased detector?) it seems that these sets with the separate detector and 1st AF sound slightly less distorted than the combo detector / AVC / 1st AF tube.  I expect that this set would be a very good performer.

RCA and GE both pushed metal tubes in the 36 and 37 seasons.  I don't know who invented them, (may have been GE?) but I am sure that RCA took the credit.  That is the way that General Sarnoff and company rolled.  Wen I recently commented that Sylvania invented the 42, but RCA took credit for it, another member commented that RCA claims that they invented the electron!  How true!!