11-14-2023, 12:02 AM
I have a model 30, severely rusted I refurbished some 45 years ago. I could not find a suitable brown paint so I used black wrinkle, chassis rusted too, it got flat black lacquer.
I had pulleys fabricated in brass and made belts from brass shim stock.
Post as to a concern of heat, there is none, 1.25 watts for the filament of each tube and about 5ma plate current at 90 volts for the RF and AF. Plate current for the detector is in the ua range.
The choke can be hand rewound, overall the radio has seen mouse or water damage. The tubes may have corrosion inside the tube base, try re-soldering all the pins. The audio transformers may well be open.
FWIW the Atwater-Kent info site is gone, find it on the internet archive. It may return as an A-K fan has files of the site and may restore it or place the files on his site:
https://roaringtwentiesantiqueradiomuseu...ssett-wing
I had pulleys fabricated in brass and made belts from brass shim stock.
Post as to a concern of heat, there is none, 1.25 watts for the filament of each tube and about 5ma plate current at 90 volts for the RF and AF. Plate current for the detector is in the ua range.
The choke can be hand rewound, overall the radio has seen mouse or water damage. The tubes may have corrosion inside the tube base, try re-soldering all the pins. The audio transformers may well be open.
FWIW the Atwater-Kent info site is gone, find it on the internet archive. It may return as an A-K fan has files of the site and may restore it or place the files on his site:
https://roaringtwentiesantiqueradiomuseu...ssett-wing
Pliny the younger
“nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat”
