27-10-2015, 05:00 PM
(27-10-2015, 07:43 AM)Murphyv310 Wrote: Thanks Mark.
Often it's best to understand the full situation. Now I understand the lack of photos etc.
One thing though that slightly upsets me is that I doubt any of us is on an ego trip!
Yes, it's correct I access internet from the local library and my time will be up at exactly 17.45 p.m. I do have internet at home on my mobile phone but this can't be used to post on any website so I have to wait till the next day to do that. I've been meaning to get a laptop but never quite got round to it.
I guess I might as well share today's result given it's been discussed here for a few weeks and leaving the ending in limbo might be akin to not telling anyone who shot J.R. Ewing.
So, nothing spectacular really. I had done a bit of last minute soldering and didn't intend to plug in till the following day. Then I thought, what the hell, might as well just quickly get the speaker out of the kitchen cupboard, connect it up to the radio and get the lamp limiter. There isn't a great deal of space on my boat so I have to make do. I likewise got my multi-meter ready and gradually plugged everything in, except the main power supply switch.
Such scenarios are always nail-biting material and I even get a bit of a rush out of it. I normally stand out of the way and watch the lamp limiter and keep my eyes out for anything that could be amiss.
I flicked the switch with the lamp limiter in circuit. Silence. I have the red test probe on the first H.T. can and the other hooked to chassis so I can watch the volts rise as it did this time. Then gradually noise coming from the speaker which sounded as if the radio was trying to do something. I powered off and moved the flywheel that operates the Variable tuning condenser because there is no chord drive as of yet. Powered on again and more noise but no station yet heard. I was curious to test voltage on the can now the whole set was under load and to retest on powering off. There is also another can on which the terminals are at the base and not on the top.
And for today I just left it at that. I didn't want to push the circuit too much too soon but mainly to see if I could get some audio response and some load on the tubes. I didn't try the waveband switches or fiddle too much with the tuner. So, it's a small step forwards with lots more to do yet.
I've really no idea how long this radio has been in a state of disrepair. I did ask the farmer but he'd no idea and just said it had been a family radio in the past. I basically collected it from the Moorlands on farm together with a lovely Roberts Rambler and a Bush tranny that both worked. I then took it by bus a fair distance home and stored it in one of my old boats for a few months.
