10-14-2025, 01:13 AM
ODPILOT;
I likely would have done the same as you did, but if let's say that didn't work you can actually remove, and replace the terminals on many of those molded sockets by unsoldering the terminal from the bottom, and pushing it through the top, reversing the procedure with replacement. If it would have been a wafer socket it's easier to push the contacts closed, but those tend to flex, and bend, I really do not like them much. If the contacts were pushed out and loose that's often a mark of a high hour set where there were lots of tube changes, but I wouldn't have thought that on a radio-phono combo unit.
Replacing a socket outright is a pain, you need not only a socket that will fit in the large hole correctly, you also need the right spacing between the rivet holes.
Regards
Arran
I likely would have done the same as you did, but if let's say that didn't work you can actually remove, and replace the terminals on many of those molded sockets by unsoldering the terminal from the bottom, and pushing it through the top, reversing the procedure with replacement. If it would have been a wafer socket it's easier to push the contacts closed, but those tend to flex, and bend, I really do not like them much. If the contacts were pushed out and loose that's often a mark of a high hour set where there were lots of tube changes, but I wouldn't have thought that on a radio-phono combo unit.
Replacing a socket outright is a pain, you need not only a socket that will fit in the large hole correctly, you also need the right spacing between the rivet holes.
Regards
Arran
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