[EdHolland]

Lots of other odd-jobs in the way between me and the radio bench this weekend, but I did make a little progress on the chassis. One thing I haven't done in previous restorations is restuffing the paper caps, but for some reason this radio seemed to inspire me to make the effort. That required a trip to the hardware store to buy more hot-glue sticks, but it is only a 5 minute walk away. Then, I had to repair the heat gun - it was always curious that the only setting was "Flaming hot" and the reason was that the temperature dial on the back of the case had broken. The 3" diameter wheel operates a small pcb mount potentiometer via a flimsy plastic spindle. Reglued the spindle back on to the wheel and we were away.

After those diversions, the first two caps were removed, deconstructed, and new film caps placed inside the old paper tubes. In doing this, I realised that several of the caps are replacements, and that they have been tacked in to place in haphazard fashion. Two of the solder joints just fell apart, with component wires barely tacked on to their the terminals.

I hope to make much more progress next weekend. This set shouldn't take all that long to recap.

Ed