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Well, today is the day of the first reward - the Zee played the local "Good oldies" station, and the sound was great.
And this is with the tone control still broken. - not even sure what it is set to.

After yesterday's recapping finished, I cleaned the tubes, which all had at least their filament intact and no obvious shorts, one of them, the second detector, said "bad" on its base, but I thought it is probably subpar but still working, at least for testing, as I still don't have a tube tester; soldered the grid cap to one of the tubes where it came off; put the rectifier in, made sure it rectified, then plugged the speaker, made sure the voltage is everywhere, plugged the rest of the tubes, saw them glow, then t oched the grid of the first stage and heard the hum. Connected a wire to Antenna, set the dial to the local station I usually listen to, and, voila, it played.

Well, I'm gonna finish the beer, then take the RF Gen. to it.

Now I have to:
- Find a new tone ctl switch
- Fix the tuning belt
- Fix the motordrive belt
- tune the IF and the dial
- The magic eye tube does not even glow green. Probably needs fixin'.
- check the SW foreign broadcast;
- Eventually test the tubes (well, just earned a little side money, enough to buy something nice, so, my love, take that!)

The audio transformer obviously is a successful choice, as it plays well and fit right in with minor adjustments.

This is it so far; will go to my main computer and post the photos of the recapped chassis.