[Eliot Ness]

Not much of an update, but I jumpered in my electrolytic capacitors and replacement candohm resistor assembly and brought it up slowly and briefly to 110V but my B+ was lower than I liked so I brought it back down.  I then broke out my ohm meter and found a 10 ohm short from B+ to chassis ground.  I was just about to unsolder a heavily populated terminal for isolation when I saw a replacement Solar .05 cap buried by the bandswitch and sure enough that guy measured 10 ohms.  Replacing it brought my B+ up to almost where I wanted it, but instead of messing with it I decided to just start replacing capacitors and resistors as needed along with servicing/cleaning the chassis and shutter dial assembly.

I decided to try my hand at making dog bone resistors.  There are a couple of different approaches, the molding and the tubing method.  Below is one example of the molding method:

https://ehscott.ning.com/forum/topics/do...esistors-1

I dismissed this because I felt the learning curve was a bit too high for this process.

That left the tubing method as shown in the following two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ddMuSt_aR4

https://philcoradio.com/library/index.ph...resistors/

The first video mentioned TAP Plastics as a source for tubing but their shipping was insanely high.  Steve Davis mentioned using Paper Mate pens so I ordered a box of 60 for just over $5 on Amazon, but the ones I received were slightly tapered so I went to a hobby shop looking for small tubing.  I wanted 4 different sizes but they only had 1/4 and 5/16 in stock.  I found the 3/8 and 7/16 on eBay and the combined shipping for both was only $1.99:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_...n&_sacat=0

The seller is omnimodels and the brand of tubing is Evergreen if that link doesn't work.

I decided to use this tubing and instead of J-B KwikWeld I ordered some two part putty (milliput) since that seems less messy and easier to work with, but I have some J-B KwikWeld if needed for some reason.

Tearing the chassis and shutter dial assembly down for cleaning/servicing, re-stuffing the paper caps, and making the dog bones will draw this project out but I'll try to make periodic updates, especially on my dog bone project.