11-12-2021, 07:32 PM
There is confusion here.
I have the PYE P123BQ Trader sheet 1131.
But I do not have the Invicta 30 sheet that Fix It Now refers to. Why that is on the UKVRRR service info @£1.99 but not on my DVD I do not know unless it is on a later disc than mine. For the reason given I will not be able to get an updated disc or buy the service information.
I have opened the set, the battery compartments are present with one leaking HP11 cell, not too much damage to sort out.
There is a Mullard glass cased TR4, possibly an OC71 and a resistor stood on end in mid air close by, obviously not original and a poor repair I suspect. All other transistors are the oval metal cased NKT Newmarket/Pye type.
With the flattish batteries still in I did get some noises from the set, mostly motorboating so the speaker will be OK. I have no idea where one would buy a center tapped 80 ohm speaker from to replace.
Case condition is very good, some fraying of the heavily textured Rexine on the front edge of the board which would be the facia in the Pye version where it fits into the lower case.
Needs a new leather strap handle. Does someone still make these, like on the Roberts sets?
Knobs are intact including the small switch knob that brings in Long Wave Radio 2 Light Program, at 198Kcs, presumably this is really 200Kcs in this set.
I have the PYE P123BQ Trader sheet 1131.
But I do not have the Invicta 30 sheet that Fix It Now refers to. Why that is on the UKVRRR service info @£1.99 but not on my DVD I do not know unless it is on a later disc than mine. For the reason given I will not be able to get an updated disc or buy the service information.
I have opened the set, the battery compartments are present with one leaking HP11 cell, not too much damage to sort out.
There is a Mullard glass cased TR4, possibly an OC71 and a resistor stood on end in mid air close by, obviously not original and a poor repair I suspect. All other transistors are the oval metal cased NKT Newmarket/Pye type.
With the flattish batteries still in I did get some noises from the set, mostly motorboating so the speaker will be OK. I have no idea where one would buy a center tapped 80 ohm speaker from to replace.
Case condition is very good, some fraying of the heavily textured Rexine on the front edge of the board which would be the facia in the Pye version where it fits into the lower case.
Needs a new leather strap handle. Does someone still make these, like on the Roberts sets?
Knobs are intact including the small switch knob that brings in Long Wave Radio 2 Light Program, at 198Kcs, presumably this is really 200Kcs in this set.
Boater Sam.
