[jrblasde]

Good evening, folks! I guess I’ll provide an update on this week’s progress. I am awaiting one last order from Mouser, with ground lugs, new inductors, a 15 Megaohm resistor (couldn’t get one of this value from WJOE), and a bit of other miscellaneous hardware. After that I will have everything I need to put this radio back together. This weekend I was able to rivet some fresh loctal and octal tube sockets into the chassis, as well as some new terminal strips. I am awaiting a ground lug before I place the rivet towards the back of the 6H6GT socket, but the others are installed.

   

   

I also made it to Office Depot this afternoon to print out my schematic on a full size E sheet of paper. I can pin this to the wall in my garage to trace along as I reconstruct the circuit.

As for the third IF transformer, I’m still on the hunt. I spoke over email and telephone with Mark Oppat this week. He has found a Philco 32-4174 IF transformer in a 1950 chassis. This isn’t an exact substitute, but it will work with only minor modification. Even so, he felt certain that we could broaden our search and find the 32-4074 that I’m needing. He suggested that I create a wanted ad here on this forum, as well as creating an ad on the Antique Radio Forum. I created an account and posted an ad. I heard from a guy in Little Rock (just a short swim down the Arkansas river from Tulsa ) who thought he had one but turned out not to. Other than that, not much has turned up. But Mark also referred me to a guy named Jonathan (Hardick?) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I called him on Friday, and he was a friendly guy. I understand that he has a large inventory of parts. He asked for me to give him some time to look, but he took my name and number to call me back.

If all of my searches turn up empty, Mark did say that he’d be happy to sell me the 32-4174.