[462ron]

I thank you so much as it would have been useful. I never should have taken on this project. I was told the woman that owned it told her son the only problem with it was the 8 track player was having crosstalk between tracks. A simple head adjustment right! She had a guy look at it, he took all the guts out of it and had it over 6 months. The son went to get it back from the guy and that's when he asked me to look at it. The guy took most of the components in the radio section off the pc board, then remounted them on the bottom, the foil side. He butchered it. Why he messed with the radio and did that with all the parts baffles me. Plus I got a bag of components with it too. I carefully unsoldered all those components, tested them, and reinstalled them on the top side of the board where they belong. I got a Sams print for it to help me along and identify where things should go. I had trouble with sensitivity of the AM band and tested and retested everything and found nothing. After replacing the RF amp and fiddling with the bias, got it working pretty good. Now onto the FM band where I get one station, the same station all up and down the dial. Looks like the oscillator isn't working so digging into that right now with no luck. The son asked me to look at it because it belongs to his mom who is widowed. It was a wedding present and means a lot to her. I'm a sucker for a good story I guess but ugh!!

Ron