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First, thank you so much for your kind replies.  I do appreciate your wililingness to help me.  Some answers to questions:
1.  I was under the impression, from reading the posts in the forum, that anyone who was willing to spend time and some money could get a radio in fairly good condition up and running again by replacing the paper caps and needed tubes.  That you don't have to be an electonics expert and have a lot of expensive testing equipment on hand.  (I'm not, and I don't)
2.  I replaced (they were missing) the two 6K7 tubes and the 6A8 and 6Q7.  The tubes I did not replace were the 5Y4 and the 6F6.
3.  I was ablet to tune in a station at 560 AM all day yesterday with a really good strong signal, and the dial appears to be correct on the tuning.  It was so loud I had to turn the volume down about halfway.
4.  Yes I have a good schematic, which has been very helpful when I was working on replacing all the capacitors.
5.  Yes I have the page that has the factory instructions for the alignment procedure.

Questions:
1.  Since I was able to pull in a good strong AM station, does that mean that the tubes are OK?
2.  I know this sounds like a stupid question, but why do I need to go through this "alignment" thing?  Shouldn't that have all been done at the factory?

I will take your advice seriously, and do my best to go through your recommended alignment procedure and we will see what we can get.


Messages In This Thread
Power On - by doctormap - 11-10-2014, 02:56 PM
RE: Power On - by morzh - 11-10-2014, 04:55 PM
RE: Power On - by doctormap - 11-10-2014, 05:20 PM
RE: Power On - by morzh - 11-10-2014, 06:50 PM
RE: Power On - by Raleigh - 11-11-2014, 04:56 PM
RE: Power On - by AI2V - 11-12-2014, 12:23 PM
RE: Power On - by Raleigh - 11-12-2014, 11:34 PM
RE: Power On - by doctormap - 11-17-2014, 02:42 PM
RE: Power On - by morzh - 11-17-2014, 02:52 PM
RE: Power On - by Warren - 11-17-2014, 03:01 PM
RE: Power On - by Radioroslyn - 11-17-2014, 03:37 PM
RE: Power On - by LASJayhawk - 11-17-2014, 09:36 PM



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