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Ed773
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 2:45 pm: | 
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Does anyone know of a good tech that can do an alignment on a 1011-D? Most can only work on transistor radios.Any help would be appreciated. |
2600
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 12:55 am: |
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I predict it will take more than just 'alignment' to get this one back up to par. If you find that proverbial '57 Impala SS under a tarp in a barn with 5000 original miles, you're gonna need more than a trip to the 'quick tune-up' shop before it's really driveable. The rubber parts (seals, gaskets, hoses) that you'll have to tear down the Chevy to replace are going to deteriorate no matter how low the mileage is. The rubber gaskets in about a dozen electrolytic capacitors used in this radio might all be good today. Even if they are, the heat from running the radio will age them in a big hurry. They will start falling like dominoes if they are all still original. Unless somebody has already spent the money on capacitors, tubes, (probably) a relay and has removed the silver oxide from parts INSIDE the VFO shield, you're gonna be disappointed either with performance, or reliability, or both. This kind of laundry list is more of a 'restoration' kind of job than 'repair', now that all the 1011s out there are past legal drinking age. Most of them are older than that.
It's hard to find a technician who will spend more money than the resale value of a radio to get it back on the air. It's a business risk they don't need. If the owner loses interest, the tech's money is spent, and even if he sells it off, it won't bring what he tied up in fixing it.
My approach is to accept only work that the owner physically carries into the building. That way I can look him in the eye and judge for myself if I think I'll actually get paid. A tube-type radio is more vulnerable to shipping damage, too. That's why we won't accept work shipped to us.
If there's a brave volunteer out there who will take this job, please speak up now.
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307
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 7:49 am: |
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Everything you ever wanted to know/align Siltronix radios is right here...
http://sonic.ucdavis.edu/siltronix/
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