Nothing to write home about quality wise. Shortly after the above posts I replaced the electrolytics and fired it up for the first time and was able to hear music played from my iPhone into the Tape Recorder input. Resurrecting this thread as I’ve made some progress in the past few months after a bit of a hiatus. Oh yeah, does anyone have any good pictures of the tuning string routing on this unit? Thanks! Anyway, it's worth the trip just to talk to the "old school" fellas in there. He lets me just wander the back room now looking for tubes and whatever else I could need.
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He gives me some type of resource or learning tool for free every time I go in. His "young" protege, Wayne, at 70 something, is the nicest guy I've ever met. Ted opened it up in 1963 and still works almost every day and he has to be in his early 90's. I need to say, if anyone is in the Melbourne, FL area, a little shop called Tedco has been incredible to me. I'm sure by then I'll be just happy to sit on the couch and listen to some music and will have zero interest in extra work! I basically want to get it going first and get all the paper caps out, then if it's working well, I may go back and clean things up and freshen up more of the components. I was probably going to skip the polystyrene caps because I had heard they usually hold up well over time. Thanks! If only this guy could remember to slide the heat shrink on before soldering! Haha. In the age of Amazon same-day delivery I usually just expect some type of confirmation semi-immediately, that's all.Īnyway, I'll post pictures later when I have a chance but I look forward to sharing my progress and any help or advice that you all can send my way. I'm just curious if anyone has dealt with the site before and knows if this is standard fare or if something is wrong. It's Friday and I haven't seen any confirmation or shipping info email. This brings me to my current dilemma: On Tuesday morning (3am), I ordered a capacitor and resistor kit from because according to some posts here it seemed like a good site to get semi-taylored kits to my needs.
Hopefully I can do this over the weekend. I bought and plan to solder in 2 new 100uF and 1 new 8uF electrolytic capacitors to replace the old "can" 3-in-1 capacitor. After that I removed the rectifier and diodes and soldered in a new rectifier, at the same time lengthening the wiring from the power transformer.
I then applied power and the fuse remained in tact.
So, after finally figuring out that the schematic that came with the unit (had all original documentation in a sleeve) was wrong regarding the power transformer, I went ahead and desoldered a few of the wires from the transformer and tested voltages which were in the acceptable range. Most paper capacitors were visually bad, some worse than others. The rectifier had been replaced by 4 diodes. I tested some of the tubes and the 4 EL95 (6DL5) tubes were bad. The strings for the volume or tuning control (not familiar with these yet) were broken. Right off I put a new fuse in it just to see what would happen and it blew the fuse right away. In the last couple of weeks I finally got around to removing the radio chassis and started to inspect. I'm new to the forum and have actually been receiving some advice from a member here through PMs already and we thought it a good idea to make the dialogue public because, like all forums, it's nice to be able to share the information and have it be searcheable for others in the future.Ī couple years ago I picked up a Grundig SO240 U/S console that was in pretty good shape but didn't work.
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