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I have been restoring one of these sets and switched it on yesterday. It didn't exactly spring into life, but after a couple of adjustments was working quite well. One of the repairs I had to do was to rewind the section of the oscillator coil which is in the cathode circuit of the 36 osc/1st detector tube. Today, the oscillator has stopped and try as I might, I can't get it to go again. I have checked all the components & coils and there is nothing that is obviously wrong. Has anyone got any suggestions please?
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Dirty tube pins and socket, cold solder joint, stray tiny strand of wire, clean the entire area around the oscillator tube with cotton swab. Get rid of that chassis gremlin. The hardest problems to fix are the ones we cause.
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Chassis grounds thru rivets is another good place to look. Oh and the stator screws on the tuning cap where the leads attach.
When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!
Terry
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