Pye radio model 69B

[Murphyv310]

Hi David.

Yes that does look rather rough.
This is my Irish chassis complete with 2v Cyclon & a lot of PP3 Batteries.
   

[Geordie McBoyne]

Hi Trevor,
                how about this?  Grey primer has been applied to those rusty surfaces and now to find the correct light blue colour for the final finish.

Geordie McBoyne.

[Geordie McBoyne]

The paint colour for the chassis has been found, Ford Riviera Blue.
i'll post up pictures of the repainted chassis shortly.

Geordie McBoyne.

[Murphyv310]

David.
For goodness sake dont paint it with paint off a dustbin!
Use a quality paint from this car:

[Geordie McBoyne]

Hi Trevor,
               Too late the paint job is done.    Behold the chassis in it's new Ford blueness.

Geordie McBoyne.

[Geordie McBoyne]

Reassembly of the chassis is almost complete.   Jobs to do are restringing the tuning drive when some drive cord is found and reattaching the Pye ID plate and aerial and loudspeaker sockets to the rear of the chassis.

Geordie McBoyne.

[boater sam]

Before you finish, how about putting the tuning condenser in a dishwasher for a cycle? It will come out looking much better, need re-greasing though.

Just a suggestion, not a criticism.

[Geordie McBoyne]

Hi Sam,
believe it or not that is condition of the tuning capacitor after cleaning it. It's a horrible thing. Perhaps the tuning drum could be painted?

Geordie McBoyne.

[Murphyv310]

Hi.
It needs TFR & hot water to get it back to pristine condition.

[Geordie McBoyne]

The Dublin made Pye 69A had been performing very well until this week. The problem is instability in the IF amplifier. The fault turned out to be the 8mfd electrolytic capacitor across the HT supply, it had gone OC.
As an extra precaution against RF and IF instability a 0.1mfd capacitor has been connected across the HT supply to the FC and IF amplifier valves.
The 0.001mfd capacitor connected to anode to anode of the QP25 push-pull output valve was found to be open circuit, actually it was a brown Hunts make capacitor and it had simply disintegrated into bits.

Now the set performs better than ever on medium and short wavebands, not so good on LW.

Geordie McBoyne.