In Jim’s workshop nothing is a problem but challenge, thanks Jim Watching your priceless videos other then learning how to restore old tube radio , we are enjoying the lessons “ turning the pain to pleasure, and hopelessness has no place in life. Thank you my friend.
Hired 'help' back in the day was usually not a problem. BACK IN THE DAY! This radio though....😅 And man, I hate pot metal too! You'll do good on this anyway Jim! Jump in the box! Stay cool as you can. Going to get HOT even in Montana next few days..around 100..but NOT 107. We are right next to mountain ranges, so usually high 80's in the summer. Fan noise on your audio not bad at all👌... got to have it! all the best~ Mike
Usually during that time period the dial pointer had around piece of felt like a washer under the center. The pointer itself was pushed onto the shaft so technically it can be carefully taken off with two small flat screwdrivers placed either side at 180 degrees from each other and pry up carefully. The fifth wire from the eyetube socket may mean the 1Meg resistor that is usually put in the base of the eye tube may actually be in chassis instead. I'm just guessing though.
Looking at the dial face plate we can see that it is held in place with rivets, but looking at the backside of the face plate one can see that the ends of the rivets are split open. So, instead of drilling the rivets maybe the split ends can be pryed up so as to enable their removal ?
In Jim’s workshop nothing is a problem but challenge, thanks Jim
Watching your priceless videos other then learning how to restore old tube radio , we are
enjoying the lessons “ turning the pain to pleasure, and hopelessness has no place in life.
Thank you my friend.
Impressive construction.
Hired 'help' back in the day was usually not a problem. BACK IN THE DAY! This radio though....😅 And man, I hate pot metal too! You'll do good on this anyway Jim! Jump in the box! Stay cool as you can. Going to get HOT even in Montana next few days..around 100..but NOT 107. We are right next to mountain ranges, so usually high 80's in the summer. Fan noise on your audio not bad at all👌... got to have it! all the best~ Mike
Usually during that time period the dial pointer had around piece of felt like a washer under the center. The pointer itself
was pushed onto the shaft so technically it can be carefully taken off with two small flat screwdrivers placed either side at
180 degrees from each other and pry up carefully. The fifth wire from the eyetube socket may mean the 1Meg resistor
that is usually put in the base of the eye tube may actually be in chassis instead. I'm just guessing though.
With all the investigation you've done on this radio, have you found anything that even hints as just exactly which model it is ?
Looking at the dial face plate we can see that it is held in place with rivets, but looking at the backside of the face plate one can see that the ends of the rivets are split open. So, instead of drilling the rivets maybe the split ends can be pryed up so as to enable their removal ?