[Jon Scaptura]

I recently acquired another 42-1010. I already own a 42-1010, that I found curbside in 2005. I was stalled on getting my restoration finished due to a stubborn bandswitch, and some mouse chewed coils. The chassis from the set that I just picked up was going to need extensive work to get it to play, but had the parts I needed to make mine complete.

I finished transplanting the oscillator and aerial transformers from the donor set into mine, and am pleased to find that the set now picks up stations across the dials quite well even before I've aligned it.

I am keeping all of the bad parts from my chassis with the donor chassis so that some day I may assemble it into another working chassis. It's going to need to be stripped down completely anyway due to the extensive rust and corrosion from mouse urine.

I do have some general questions about the 42-1010 console now that I've revisited my project:

1 - Is the bass control supposed to operate counter-intuituve to how modern controls operate? In my case, turning the knob full counter-clockwise produces the most bass.

2 - Is the bin light meant to be a 4 watt or 7 watt bulb?

3 - Was the speaker cable attached anywhere to the cabinet, or left floating between the chassis and speaker?

4 - My beam of light phono needs extensive mechanical repair and rubber replacement beyond my level of expertise. Does anyone restore these on the mechanical level?

[Ron Ramirez]

Hi Jon

I'll try to answer at least some of your questions:

1 - Is the bass control supposed to operate counter-intuituve to how modern controls operate? In my case, turning the knob full counter-clockwise produces the most bass.

I don't have my 42-1011 anymore, but I *think* the bass control did indeed operate "backwards" to what you would normally expect.

2 - Is the bin light meant to be a 4 watt or 7 watt bulb?

Can't definitely answer this one. I've used 4 watt bulbs as replacements to be on the safe side.

3 - Was the speaker cable attached anywhere to the cabinet, or left floating between the chassis and speaker?

Left floating.

4 - My beam of light phono needs extensive mechanical repair and rubber replacement beyond my level of expertise. Does anyone restore these on the mechanical level?

You might ask Gib at West-Tech Services, tell him I sent you.
http://www.west-techservices.com/

[Jon Scaptura]

Hi Jon

I'll try to answer at least some of your questions:

2 - Is the bin light meant to be a 4 watt or 7 watt bulb?

Can't definitely answer this one. I've used 4 watt bulbs as replacements to be on the safe side.

What's interesting is that while both of my 42-1010 cabinets had the original Mazda lamps in them, neither bulb has any indication of the wattage.

4 - My beam of light phono needs extensive mechanical repair and rubber replacement beyond my level of expertise. Does anyone restore these on the mechanical level?

You might ask Gib at West-Tech Services, tell him I sent you.
http://www.west-techservices.com/

I'll look him up. Thanks. I've also got an email into the guy who does the pickups, but haven't heard anything back. It's been a couple weeks. I'll try again this week.

Thanks for the tips. I love this forum.

[Ron Ramirez]

Jon

On the Beam of Light pickup, I suggest you ask either Gib at West-Tech or Sylvain Vanier to see if one of them can do the job. West-Tech's address is in my previous post; Syl's website is http://www.oldradioz.com/id10.htm.

[Jon Scaptura]

Jon

On the Beam of Light pickup, I suggest you ask either Gib at West-Tech or Sylvain Vanier to see if one of them can do the job. West-Tech's address is in my previous post; Syl's website is http://www.oldradioz.com/id10.htm.

Is Donald Cochrane no longer rebuilding these? He's the one that I emailed, but I see his link has since been removed from the links page.