26-04-2017, 05:20 PM
Hi.
What an awful radio to repair, God help those engineers that had to do drive cords...... Well I have removed the front panel, itself a rubbish job to do, the glass and dial have to be removed and this has to be an after thought as are the controls and switches. Probably a job for those with long thin fingers but I'm disappointed in Eddystone and their lack of thought for repair.
Well I did the the three cords, some plonker in the past did away with the bandspread cord to the pointer and did it his own way which didn't work. This has now been sorted out.
The slide switch for the Xtal was broken and TBH due to lack of room I can understand. I've still the controls to sort out and refit the front panel, scale and glass which will no doubt fill the air with Billy Connelly expletives. I also have changed the 0.01uf caps in the RF and IF sections and checked the audio output stage and replaced two faulty components. I also have powered the set back up and have better results than yesterday, not brilliant but improved. Next will be to check the resistors for value and once done do a full realignment.
