10-29-2014, 07:57 PM
The dreaded moment has come: I have just put on my table the AK808A I bought last summer.
Wow, what a serious animal.
Philcos are the simplicity itself compared to this. I am trembling and shaking in my slippers.
I also did not realize this one has a shadowgraph.
Mamma mia, Dominus mecum est.
Anyways, the much dreaded Gutta Percha wires are mostly in good shape and not only not cracked but even feel soft to the touch.
That is most of them.
There are some that are well cracked, the black ones, that carry the filament voltage, red (same signal, coming from the power transformer), a couple of beige ones.
The wires coming out of RF cans to the tuning cap / grid caps are very much frayed, will have to be replaced.
I love their resistors, they are colored so vibrantly, it feels almost sacrilegious to cut them out.
All the grid cap wires have that one-end wrapped wire around them (like that one in some Philcos, like in 80 I think or 84), will have to think how to best replace it when I change the frayed ones.
Well....first things first, coil check, transformer buzz-out and such.
Wow, what a serious animal.
Philcos are the simplicity itself compared to this. I am trembling and shaking in my slippers.
I also did not realize this one has a shadowgraph.
Mamma mia, Dominus mecum est.
Anyways, the much dreaded Gutta Percha wires are mostly in good shape and not only not cracked but even feel soft to the touch.
That is most of them.
There are some that are well cracked, the black ones, that carry the filament voltage, red (same signal, coming from the power transformer), a couple of beige ones.
The wires coming out of RF cans to the tuning cap / grid caps are very much frayed, will have to be replaced.
I love their resistors, they are colored so vibrantly, it feels almost sacrilegious to cut them out.
All the grid cap wires have that one-end wrapped wire around them (like that one in some Philcos, like in 80 I think or 84), will have to think how to best replace it when I change the frayed ones.
Well....first things first, coil check, transformer buzz-out and such.
