10-02-2018, 07:20 PM
So...just one battery wire needed replacement, not sure why in one spot it hardened and cracked while remaining pliable along the rest of it.
Then the tube test. All but one tube tested new: the bad one, the 1LD5 det-amp, had several shorts.
Luckily I had one, an NOS I bought as a part of the kit for 7G605.
Guess this is why it didn't work (was told it did). Probably a goid thing too, else if it worked right out, I might have been tempted to leave it be.
Oh..... not sure what version I have but it has 1LA4 pushpull instead of 1LB4 , and 117Z3 rectifier instead of 117Z6.
Long story short, the BC worked right out.
No activity on any SW band so will see what happens during the alignment.
Then the tube test. All but one tube tested new: the bad one, the 1LD5 det-amp, had several shorts.
Luckily I had one, an NOS I bought as a part of the kit for 7G605.
Guess this is why it didn't work (was told it did). Probably a goid thing too, else if it worked right out, I might have been tempted to leave it be.
Oh..... not sure what version I have but it has 1LA4 pushpull instead of 1LB4 , and 117Z3 rectifier instead of 117Z6.
Long story short, the BC worked right out.
No activity on any SW band so will see what happens during the alignment.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
