Winter BVWS Bulletin - excellent!

[Yorkie]

Thanks for the "superb" David: I do try and to me its quite a good article with some never before seen features of that particular radio. Plus I hope there are a few new ideas or at least not seen before ideas for some.
Gary

Yes Gary several very useful tips to help the unwary avoid pitfalls. There's often a tendency to ''dive in' and start dismantling and disturbing components and wiring, then later - often after perhaps many weeks have elapsed - the truth dawns that you haven't a clue what goes where because no notes or drawing were made, or if they were, it was on scraps of paper which just might be around somewhere.

The service data for the Ekco AC77 that I'm restoring is better than most and has a clear under-chassis diagram, which is A5 size. It shows the location of the main components but not all of them, and not all of the wiring. Based on your advice I'll be getting that enlarged to A3 size and adding lines for all the components for which wiring isn't show in the diagram. You're certainly right about pictures not telling the whole story. Although I've taken lots of pictures, I've compared them with the chassis and asked my self whether - were the chassis stripped bare and I was at the rebuilding stage - would the pics give me enough to rebuild it without a hitch. I think you can guess the answer to that rhetorical question!

Nice to read a write up about a total restoration of an unusual set, (a French one at that!) which called for much detective work and posed many new challenges (even for a seasoned restorer!).

Not sure what you'll be doing for an encore Gary, but no doubt you'll already have something in mind!