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I have given the cabinet a clean with Liberon wax & polish remover, lightly touched up a few chips in the lacquer and finally a good wax polish and rub down.
It is working very well, I can hear and resolve 3 really strong stations on Long Waves and about 3 more quiet ones. Lots of strong stations on Medium Waves but it is quite easy to resolve them with careful use of the fine tuning control and aerial capacitor. On MW the Reaction control needs no adjustment it is just left fully anticlockwise. On LW the reaction control has a more pronounced effect and some adjustment is an advantage as you scan across the wave band.
Volume is very loud now that the speaker is in the cabinet and facing me. You need to back off the aerial capacitor and detune slightly to get a reasonable comfortable listening level. All in all a very good radio and quite easy to operate with the ganged tuning control and fine tuning capacitor.
The finished service information now resided on the KB Museum website. http://kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_service_manuals/KB_279_WW.pdf
Here are some photos of the finished radio.
Mike
I have given the cabinet a clean with Liberon wax & polish remover, lightly touched up a few chips in the lacquer and finally a good wax polish and rub down.
It is working very well, I can hear and resolve 3 really strong stations on Long Waves and about 3 more quiet ones. Lots of strong stations on Medium Waves but it is quite easy to resolve them with careful use of the fine tuning control and aerial capacitor. On MW the Reaction control needs no adjustment it is just left fully anticlockwise. On LW the reaction control has a more pronounced effect and some adjustment is an advantage as you scan across the wave band.
Volume is very loud now that the speaker is in the cabinet and facing me. You need to back off the aerial capacitor and detune slightly to get a reasonable comfortable listening level. All in all a very good radio and quite easy to operate with the ganged tuning control and fine tuning capacitor.
The finished service information now resided on the KB Museum website. http://kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_service_manuals/KB_279_WW.pdf
Here are some photos of the finished radio.
Mike
