At long last, it is aligned! I’ve uploaded a couple of new videos to YouTube to demonstrate. YouTube picked up on Hall and Oates playing on KTSO when I recorded FM, so it has alerted me that this video may not be available to everyone around the world. Apologies if the video doesn’t play in your area. I figured a fifteen-second demonstration would be okay, but I guess there’s limitations to recording music.
It is starting to get nice on LI also. However, this week is a total wipeout. I am in a really good Catholic Church choir (one would figure that after 62 years singing in church, I would get good at it, but it hasn't happened) and work in the parish food pantry, so I have been in church all week. With the "Triduum" (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter) coming up, I will be in church every night including Sunday for 2 Masses. (I am in the handbell choir also.)
Starting next week, I have to clean up, seed and fertilize the lawn, fix various leaks on Ms. Fixr's 2000 Explorer and replace the rear strut / spring assemblies on my 03 Taurus before something important falls off the car. Throw in anything else that my landscaper neighbor breaks (like a front wheel bearing on his truck 2 weeks ago) and I may see an antique radio in about 2 months. Problem is that at 70 (next week), having arthritis and being "fluffy", this all takes time.
"Do Justly, love Mercy and walk humbly with your God"- Micah 6:8
"Let us begin to do good"- St. Francis
I've run the radio for a couple of hours today, and all is well. It's a remarkable sounding radio! I'll go ahead and upload all of my finalized documentation here. Attached are the completed Rev 1 schematic (no further changes since the last I noted), a list of all the new resistor part numbers, and a list of all the new capacitor part numbers. Hopefully these help someone down the road!
I figured that the video demonstration of the assembled radio belonged better in my original article about taking a road trip to buy the radio than it did either in this electrical restoration thread or in my other cabinet restoration thread. Y'all can navigate to that one for a link to the video on YouTube. It's a six-minute video this time, and I show off the cabinet and test it out in real time.
@ Joseph, get off the porch and run with the dogs. You fixed one, grab another. @ Morzh, I think that we are the same ones. The insane ones throw out history and family heirlooms instead of engaging in a hobby that sharpens skills and is relatively inexpensive (unless you want A-K 10s, Westinghouse RA-DAs or RCs, Radiola IIs, crystal sets, RCA 128s, Philco Predictas, etc.), but, hey, it's still cheaper than boats (B.O.A.T = Bust Out Another Thousand) collectible cars, in ground swimming pools, etc.
"Do Justly, love Mercy and walk humbly with your God"- Micah 6:8
"Let us begin to do good"- St. Francis
Haha, thank you sir! I’ve been eyeballing a 47-1230 console for sale over north of Bentonville, Arkansas for a while. Pretty similar to mine but with a record player. But where can I conceal another console in my house? I’ve also seen a 49-909, which was one of three AM/FM sets from the 1949 model year. It also features a power transformer, so I imagine it’s a pretty nice set.
Or, who knows? Maybe I’ll get a prewar set! I do love the look of the so-called “shouldered” tombstones, but they seem to command a high price.
Lastly, I do have that nasty 48-482 in my attic. But it’s really just so gross and coated in a goopy syrup of smoke resin and dust. I’ve also slowly been robbing it of minor parts. Maybe I’ll drum up the courage to tackle it. It’s local to Tulsa (the chassis and interior of the cabinet are stamped to indicate that the set was sold in 1950 from a former shop here in Tulsa). That would be a neat bit of history to restore. I saw it on eBay, and it caught my eye because I saw a preset button marked KOMA. Nowadays KOMA is an FM station (92.5 MHz, broadcast out of Oklahoma City), but it used to be an AM station long ago. I imagine it could have been received here during the night time when AM stations increased their broadcasting power.
I’ve also seen a 49-909, which was one of three AM/FM sets from the 1949 model year. It also features a power transformer, so I imagine it’s a pretty nice set.
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