George, was the "Ballchinnian" @ 1:19 there to see if we were really watching? LOL! Sorry about your transformer, the rest is looking quite good. Glad you have a spare. The bane of my soldering experience...smoke. One whiff of solder smoke and it will stay in my nostrils and oddly also in my gums for weeks.
It was indeed Gary. I thought I'd add something extra in to videos as sort of 'easter eggs'. I have been breathing solder smoke since my teens and it has never worried me but because i'm still using solder I bought 20 years ago I do wonder if some of the flux ingredients have been banned now!
@@GeorgeChristofi I only have rosin core lead solder myself. Even have leaded tip tinner that I found on ebay from Britain. Been a long time since I've seen it, but I did remember that character from men in black...not to be confused by the three stooges episode of the same name, lol.
I did check the Radio Museum site (i'm a member there) to see if they had anything more than the info I already had. It ended up with me adding photos of an actual set which they didn't have for this model!
Yep, its one of those things, do you hoard stuff for 'a rainy day' or do you not. Unfortunately for my wife, I'm a hoarder and sometimes my hoarding comes up trumps.
It was lucky really. Most of the ones I have are for 6bq5 tubes which run a higher impedance. The 6bw6 is actually a 6v6 in a 9 pin miniature tube so transformers are not that hard to find.
George, was the "Ballchinnian" @ 1:19 there to see if we were really watching? LOL! Sorry about your transformer, the rest is looking quite good. Glad you have a spare. The bane of my soldering experience...smoke. One whiff of solder smoke and it will stay in my nostrils and oddly also in my gums for weeks.
It was indeed Gary. I thought I'd add something extra in to videos as sort of 'easter eggs'. I have been breathing solder smoke since my teens and it has never worried me but because i'm still using solder I bought 20 years ago I do wonder if some of the flux ingredients have been banned now!
@@GeorgeChristofi I only have rosin core lead solder myself. Even have leaded tip tinner that I found on ebay from Britain. Been a long time since I've seen it, but I did remember that character from men in black...not to be confused by the three stooges episode of the same name, lol.
Coming right along George! Per RadioMusem they date it plausible as 1955, I really couldn't any concrete date. Cheers mate! ~Jack, VEG
I did check the Radio Museum site (i'm a member there) to see if they had anything more than the info I already had. It ended up with me adding photos of an actual set which they didn't have for this model!
You are making great progress. A stroke of luck you had that capacitor in your spare box. Nice work.
Yep, its one of those things, do you hoard stuff for 'a rainy day' or do you not. Unfortunately for my wife, I'm a hoarder and sometimes my hoarding comes up trumps.
Great video George! Moving on to Part 3.
Many thanks!!
Hi George, Glad you found a replacement output tranny.
It was lucky really. Most of the ones I have are for 6bq5 tubes which run a higher impedance. The 6bw6 is actually a 6v6 in a 9 pin miniature tube so transformers are not that hard to find.
That is great.