[apERNA1985]

Hey guys I just wanted to follow up. I was going to restore the other chassis and see if it worked better, but I didn't have a 50B5 (mine uses 50L6) or an extra 35Z5. So I ordered a two pack of 35Z5s and a 50B5 off of eBay. I changed the 35Z5 in my restored chassis and the hum went from completely overpowering, sounding like Full throttle at a jet boat race to reasonable AM radio hum between stations, I got all the week stations back also. There is something wrong with the volume control, the radio never really gets quiet when you lower it down, and if you leave the knob at its lowest setting where it's resting against the switch to turn it off it starts to squeak like feedback in a microphone. If you jiggle the volume control just a little bit it goes away. I did try cleaning the volume control but it didn't seem to make a difference... I do intend to go through the radio and do more testing now that I could actually hear something in the upper part of the dial. I'm glad I got somewhere with this, I was at the point to give up the hobby, if I can't use AM radio in my house what good is a bunch of restored AM radios. I was thinking about just adding an auxiliary input to all of them and running Bluetooth through them.