[Jayce]

Still keeping my fingers crossed, but it appears I have finally ironed out the issues with my recapped Arvin 302. My late friend recapped this radio the winter before he passed away, but we never really could get it to pick up much at all here at my place. It was one of those projects we were going to get back to, but other radios got worked on before it and he passed away of course. Well, finally figured out the poor reception issue, one of the wires to the tuner was broke off! In this model they mounted the tuner remotely from the chassis with stupidly short wires, in fact the one that broke off goes right over one of the tuning adjustments. I figure my friend did a final tweaking of the alignment and the old wire cracked right at the solder joint, then finally broke totally after I got it home. Well, that is repaired and... then it would get badly distorted sound after 15 minutes! Grrrrr!   Seems even though the 50L6 tests good, it must develop a short after it gets really hot. I subbed another known good 50L6 and the radio is now happy. Playing it right now and hope to use it to welcome in the new year tonight. It's picking up 960 out of Wooster, Ohio on only about five foot of antenna.