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A new update for those that care. The teflon is working on the mute switch all good for the time being. The mag tuning off and on switch is working. Great there. The mag tuning reed switch is now working nicely but as indicated earlier, the whole thing for the mag tuning is still shorted from one leg to the other basically keeping it turned off. I removed the caps from the can that sets in the middle of all that to see if I did something wrong. Look at the nice schematic that Ron had posted. Everything was hooked together (3 caps and a ground) properly and the two wires that were "brown" were tied together and hooked on a terminal strip. Why two coming out of the cap can that were hooked to the same point when one could do the job, I'm clueless. The other wire was color coded as indicate and went to the next terminal tab. None of the wires were ever removed from the terminal strip which had a ton of crap wired to it. After finally looking closely at the wires, one brown was hooked along with the striped wire to the same tab on the strip, together. The other brown of the legs was hooked to the other terminal strip. This essentially shorted the two legs together. A little moving of wires around, everything works properly. The two legs involving switch 97 and the mag tuning switch will now close the connection across the two legs as they should. On to trying to to adjust the mag tuning. Lesson learned, never trust the wiring color on the schematic.

Jerry

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RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-26-2013, 07:17 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by Phlogiston - 01-26-2013, 08:30 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by Ron Ramirez - 01-26-2013, 09:44 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-26-2013, 10:12 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-26-2013, 10:34 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-29-2013, 12:03 AM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by Phlogiston - 01-29-2013, 04:16 AM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-29-2013, 02:16 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 01-31-2013, 09:16 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by Phlogiston - 01-31-2013, 11:04 PM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by jerryhawthorne - 02-01-2013, 12:10 AM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question - by Phlogiston - 02-01-2013, 03:34 AM
RE: Philco 38-116 Question More Questions - by jerryhawthorne - 02-15-2013, 11:59 PM



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