09-25-2016, 06:42 PM
Next project is a Zenith 6D029 that I picked up at Kutztown from phorum member Preston Smith. It looked nice, had a nice back, wasn’t too pricey and Preston said it worked…sold.
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Just doing some cleaning. That black spacer around the grill cloth and dial cover is very fragile (don’t ask) and I’m going to have to find something to make a replacement. I think it just serves as a spacer between the chassis and the cabinet. Mark Palmquist had a replacement plastic dial cover and since I was at Ktown and he was at Ktown there was no shipping cost.
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The dial string looked a little funky and was fraying. The vertical dial string loop (on the right) on the radio was actually crossing itself just above the bottom pulley wheel and after I got the front dial off I could see there was not spring in the large pulley wheel. It has obviously been restrung at some time in the past. I decided to restring it and after a couple more turns the dial cord broke anyway, so there was no turning back. I found a spring in my junk box that I think will do OK. Here’s the restrung section with a dab of glue on the knot still drying.
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I’ll restring the horizontal dial string as well but that will have to wait until I put the dial back on and I won’t be doing that until after I finish recapping. That makes it less likely I’ll damage the cardboard dial face and pointer and gives me some time to see if my spring and restring will hold.
Next, on to the recap…should be pretty straight forward except for getting to the electrolytic can leads which are buried under the terminal strip and several other components in the upper left corner of the photo.
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[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ck8ffx9t4itk88....jpg?raw=1]
Just doing some cleaning. That black spacer around the grill cloth and dial cover is very fragile (don’t ask) and I’m going to have to find something to make a replacement. I think it just serves as a spacer between the chassis and the cabinet. Mark Palmquist had a replacement plastic dial cover and since I was at Ktown and he was at Ktown there was no shipping cost.
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeo77s1n5chqur....jpg?raw=1]
The dial string looked a little funky and was fraying. The vertical dial string loop (on the right) on the radio was actually crossing itself just above the bottom pulley wheel and after I got the front dial off I could see there was not spring in the large pulley wheel. It has obviously been restrung at some time in the past. I decided to restring it and after a couple more turns the dial cord broke anyway, so there was no turning back. I found a spring in my junk box that I think will do OK. Here’s the restrung section with a dab of glue on the knot still drying.
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ndsgj6gi6w491....jpg?raw=1]
I’ll restring the horizontal dial string as well but that will have to wait until I put the dial back on and I won’t be doing that until after I finish recapping. That makes it less likely I’ll damage the cardboard dial face and pointer and gives me some time to see if my spring and restring will hold.
Next, on to the recap…should be pretty straight forward except for getting to the electrolytic can leads which are buried under the terminal strip and several other components in the upper left corner of the photo.
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f7ysrq2no8pzb....jpg?raw=1]
