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Atwater Kent 55C - she's singing again
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The AK55C is once again playing and sounding pretty good.  I used a couple of 2 watt resistors in parallel to create 4 watt resistors and hid them behind the existing wirewound fiber board, not perfect, but good enough.  Replaced all but one of the old resistors using a molding technique to reproduce them (again not perfect but...) and got rid of the tacked in power resistors and electrolytic cap mess from a previous repair.  Also had to take some of the rubber coated wires and re-sleeve them (actually easier than doing it in the '39-'42 Philcos). 

As received:
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3haslq3thenm2....jpg?raw=1]

Restored:
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/13aakg65a4n45n....jpg?raw=1]

Still some cosmetic work to do to clean up the chassis some more and repaint the tops of the large cans, then install it back into the table.

I was puzzled for awhile.  Had all the right voltages on the tube plates, screens and grid caps but was not getting any stations.  After rechecking all the coils I realized I had forgotten to reconnect the antenna coil to the tuning cap after having taking it out.... Icon_sick  Bingo...talk radio started coming in loud and clear....  Icon_biggrin


Messages In This Thread
RE: Atwater Kent 55C in Kiel Table - by sam - 11-25-2014, 12:17 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55C in Kiel Table - by KCMike - 11-25-2014, 03:51 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55C in Kiel Table - by Jayce - 11-26-2014, 01:03 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55C in Kiel Table - by radioalfa - 11-26-2014, 10:05 PM
RE: Atwater Kent 55C - resistor question - by klondike98 - 01-30-2015, 09:24 PM



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