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Another Update on model 87 restoration
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07-29-2011, 10:44 PM
Thanks again for the replies and help. After letting the set play for awhile and turning the volume control back and forth a few times it seems to be responding a little better now. And the small variable cap does help with fine tuning. I'll clean the volume control when I get a chance and see if that helps further.

I am experiencing a little bit of an annoying hum, like an ac line hum. I may live with that unless you guys can suggest a fairly easy fix for that too.

An interesting thing...there are stickers/labels with the name of the repair shop on the tubes indicating that they were checked in 1932,(apparently put on while servicing the set) and the sticker on one of the 26 tubes lists it as bad. That was 79 years ago and the tube is apparently still kickin.

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