16-03-2014, 07:10 PM
Wonderful job Gary. Crikey - you certainly take on some scary tasks - it looks a complex set and not one for the faint-hearted!
The article will be an excellent follow on from the Integra in the Winter Bull. (Lots of helpful restoration tips in that article). Rat's nest indeed - at least the Integra had some semblance of order, with under chassis tag-strips. I saw an Ekco AC76 a while back, I couldn't believe how untidy the under-chassis layout wiring was. The AC77 under chassis is chaotic too - not much at one end but all bunched up at the other, though at least the power supply is on a separate chassis in the AC77.
I guess that in the mid 30s design concepts were still evolving 'on the hoof', but I'd have thought that with enough foresight, sets could have been better laid out, easier and less labour intensive to build, with less risk of errors creeping in. In the Ekco A22 on the other hand, with it's accessible tagstrip around the outer periphery on the chassis apron, it's evident that much thought went into all aspects of the design and construction.
Always fascinating to look at each wire and component in an old set and to know that someone long gone will have wired up their own little bit countless times, day in, day out as the sets passed down the assembly line: cut the wire to length, poke it through the hole in the tag, solder it, pass it one, cut the wire to length, poke it through the hole...
The article will be an excellent follow on from the Integra in the Winter Bull. (Lots of helpful restoration tips in that article). Rat's nest indeed - at least the Integra had some semblance of order, with under chassis tag-strips. I saw an Ekco AC76 a while back, I couldn't believe how untidy the under-chassis layout wiring was. The AC77 under chassis is chaotic too - not much at one end but all bunched up at the other, though at least the power supply is on a separate chassis in the AC77.
I guess that in the mid 30s design concepts were still evolving 'on the hoof', but I'd have thought that with enough foresight, sets could have been better laid out, easier and less labour intensive to build, with less risk of errors creeping in. In the Ekco A22 on the other hand, with it's accessible tagstrip around the outer periphery on the chassis apron, it's evident that much thought went into all aspects of the design and construction.
Always fascinating to look at each wire and component in an old set and to know that someone long gone will have wired up their own little bit countless times, day in, day out as the sets passed down the assembly line: cut the wire to length, poke it through the hole in the tag, solder it, pass it one, cut the wire to length, poke it through the hole...
Regards, David.
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'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
