Month: June 2020

This is a lovely old set with LW MW and a SW band. It’s a restoration for a family friend. Initial investigation shows that the chassis are quite well laid out. There a PSU with audio amplifer on one chassis and the radio section in the upper chassis. Work on the PSU showed lots of perished wiring, with is common for this age. The transformer looks sound and will be tested on mains shortly. 2/6 Just finished re-wiring the power supply and connections to the speaker, as the harness totally […]

This set arrived from a friend, it’s in quite good condition. On initial inspection things looked very clean. The usual method of testing an restoring the power supply. Cleaned up the chassis, downloaded the service manual and ordered some electrolytics for the power supply, these took quite a while to arrive. There must me a shortage of these 32uf-32uf components! Finally, after waiting a couple of weeks for the PSU capacitor to turn up, I was able to work through the set. I already had all the other capacitors in […]