09-03-2012, 11:47 AM
Yesterday I bought some #30 magnet wire in Radio Shack. The gauge was probably twice what's needed, but this was not important in this particular case.
Re-wound that section. Thought of putting it back today, but then, having come home late night after a good drinking party, I felt inspired and soldered the choke back about some 2am.
It worked fine, eventually the eye tube started closing, and the "Local/Long distance switch" was making difference (was not before), and I caught some nice loud music and other stations on SW (foreign).
The music was Mid-Eastern, so I went back to "Good time oldies" station on Standard Broadcast.
The undertaking proved to be much easier than anticipated - the de-soldering was a snap (I expected it to be finicky), the choke came out nicely, and restoring 3 turns was easy also. Soldering back, even considering 7 hours Russian soul-warming drinking, took me 15 minutes tops.
It's good the other section was intact - otherwise the sailing would not be as smooth.
Re-wound that section. Thought of putting it back today, but then, having come home late night after a good drinking party, I felt inspired and soldered the choke back about some 2am.
It worked fine, eventually the eye tube started closing, and the "Local/Long distance switch" was making difference (was not before), and I caught some nice loud music and other stations on SW (foreign).
The music was Mid-Eastern, so I went back to "Good time oldies" station on Standard Broadcast.
The undertaking proved to be much easier than anticipated - the de-soldering was a snap (I expected it to be finicky), the choke came out nicely, and restoring 3 turns was easy also. Soldering back, even considering 7 hours Russian soul-warming drinking, took me 15 minutes tops.
It's good the other section was intact - otherwise the sailing would not be as smooth.
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