[Ron Ramirez]

Thanks, Joe; I really appreciate that. There were times while I was working on this 788 that I wondered which was harder to rewire: the 42-788 or the 41-616. Now that I think about it, I believe the 41-616 was definitely harder to do. I'm glad to hear you have it working well. Maybe sometime in the near future I can see a demo of it in action?

Well, back to the 42-788.

I pulled the AM oscillator coil today, after taking careful notes as to how each of the wires hooked up.

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I had noticed what looked like a broken wire near terminal 1 of the coil before I removed it. After removal, it was readily apparent:

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It looks like something hit this coil, or scraped across it, causing a wire to break.

I carefully went over the coil with a heat gun to remove most of the old wax in order to see things better.

As it turned out, it was broken only one turn from the beginning. I unwound a few more turns just to see if the wire broke where it had been hit or scraped; the wire did not break, so those few turns were rewound and I soldered the end back to terminal 1.

After securing both the beginning and the end with hot glue, I went over each end of the coil with clear nail polish to hold the windings in place.

Afterward, it looked like this.

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I kept checking the coil with the ohms function of my DMM to make sure it was OK. I checked it over a final time after it was back in the radio.

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Now, it was time to try it out...