[Yesterday: 5 miles, today zero]<\/p>\n
We are working on an old console radio that my wife got from a local acquaintance.\u00a0 It’s a Slivertone.\u00a0 The folks it came from had taken the electronic guts out and refinished the wooden parts.\u00a0 Then I think they got stuck.\u00a0 We don’t have the knobs or the bezel.\u00a0 We do have the chassis which has all of the tubes in t.<\/p>\n
Tonight we got out the old tube tester and tested those tubes.\u00a0 About half need to be replaced.\u00a0 We have a hamfest coming up and are going to take the tube list and the capacitor list to the hamfest to see if we can get those parts.<\/p>\n
If the hamfest doesn’t have them, there are online sources which will do the job, no problem.<\/p>\n
I have also been piling up a bunch of stuff to take to the hamfest to sell.\u00a0 I am hoping to liquidate stuff that I am not using and maybe accumulate enough to buy an Elecraft K2.<\/p>\n
The single biggest item is the cesium frequency standard.\u00a0 I’ve decided that being Mr. Atomic Time was really not my goal in life.\u00a0 But, surely someone out there is looking for the title!\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, I think it was a whale of a deal when I bought it and I have enjoyed working with it.\u00a0 But I am thinking it is worth more than I am willing to support and would rather have something else.\u00a0 So I am going to put a big price on it and find out.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we dug through my boxes of tubes and found one replacement for a dud.\u00a0 We have a list of 7 others, 5 which we definitely need to replace and 2 which would be a good idea to replace.<\/p>\n
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