[dan mauro]

Thanks for the great feedback and directions on how to get started. Your advice will be well taken on my next opportunity to look into the 40-180. My wife surprised me with a gift a few weeks ago, a Crosley XJ. It's a four tube, non-regenerative, multi-battery operated set that only has a few dozen components. It was manufactured in the '20s before electricity was standardized in homes and so they were using three or four battery types. I've started collecting information on the set and now have a schematic and a hookup sheet from the factory. This thing is really cool in that it actually has holes in the cabinet so you can see the brightness of the filaments in each tube and adjust them accordingly using a pot knob on the cabinet front as you observe the tube brightness through the holes. Each filament is paralled to one six volt "A" battery. I'm thinking about assembling a multi-voltage power supply for it first thing. I think theres only one trimmer cap for "alignment". I've put this project in front of the 40-180 and any advice anyone can give me on this would be greatly appreciated.