[Ron Ramirez]

Thanks for the idea, Arran - but it doesn't look possible.

Meanwhile, my LED bulbs were scheduled to arrive on Monday (4th) - they arrived today!

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I quickly rebuilt the dial lamp and attached a power cord. Installed one of the two 120 volt LED lamps, and tried the radio out with most of the tubes removed since I am still waiting on the new electrolytics:

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It isn't real bright. The previous two photos, as well as the next three, were taken with the lights out in the room and only a little bit of light coming in from the window off to the right of the photos. The camera automatically compensated for the low light, so it looks like more light is in the room than there is. (Edit: The camera's compensating for low light also makes the LED lamp look much brighter than it really is.)

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AM or "broadcast" band (band 1)

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2.3 to 7 mc SW (band 2)

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25 meters (band 5)

You can just see that each band is illuminated, but barely.

I might just leave it in place and try it inside the cabinet once the electrolytics arrive and I install them and (hopefully) get this set going. If I don't like how the LED light looks with the set in the cabinet, I'll convert it back to use the 14 volt lamp.