(20-05-2022, 10:20 PM)joebog1 Wrote: Well, Sam, I think you are expecting a little much from your little electric wireless.
After all it was built in a cave, with lighting provided by candles.
You can see where the wax has dripped onto the assembly.
Perhaps it was soldered with a piece of wire held in the candle flame to "heat it up ".
I would suggest that coil for long wave was wound on a treadle sewing machines bobbin winder!!.
:-)
Joe
It is a disgustingly badly made item I'll grant you.
Wax everywhere, cock-eyed components, even some of the IFTs.
As for the coil winding I think you could be correct!
A redeeming feature, its not lead free solder!
A further niggle, to get at the print side of the board to work out the circuit or actually fix the thing, I will have to remove the pointer, tuning scale and the cord drive which is quite complicated and all plastic bits. I had enough trouble just getting the control knobs off, they were glued on.
Boater Sam.
