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Thanks guys, it's fun to hear it play, especvially considering my AM 1160 Good Times Oldies station is the strongest one and today it is doo-wop, Credence, "Get back" etc....this is the right equipment to liosten to those.

Jerry,

I tried everything, and every trial is taking it out and then centering it.....First of the dial is too close to the escutcheon and sometimes I can hear it rub against it.....so I tried to move the dial a bit in (had to remember the position....tightening that screw is a RPITB, the dial moves every time) and then it would get stuck around 1400, so had to move it back.

The tuning cap is mounted on grommets so not much adjustment there, alas.
And yes, the shadow meter can be bent a bit but I am so much afraid to break something.....I adjusted it just a tad, and for shadometer that's enough, when it tunes in the shadow is practically in the middle, but the lighted slit for the dial is a bit off.
Also could be something due to the grommets the chassis is mounted on, one of them is oversized and does not allow much skewing teh chassis, although this did not help much in the first place, so....

I decided "best is enemy of good'nuff" and am gonna live it for now. It looks just fine and works great. And even without alignment the 1160 station is at 1160.

As you can see the cloth is not what I hoped it would be, but the situation is such that today I am beggar not chooser due to that cloth shortage, or as the Russian saying goes, "where there's no fish, crayfish is the fish", so I had to buy whatever I saw fit on eBay. One day when the right one pops up...and if I am still alive and able to work with radio and high voltages....then we'll see

Well, this is it for now for this one, or at least for the major part, off to the 38-15, then to 7G605.