[Boatanchors] Joy of Boatanchors (?)

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Just finished restoring my old TBS-50C transmitter. Got it working FB with an old Lysco VFO. Not even any chirp! So, I turn on the trusty old HQ-129X, and am listening 
around in preparation for a QSO, when I hear that annoying "snap.crackle,pop." Since I wasn't eating cereal, I figured I had a problem. Then the HQ-129X went dead, no 
audio, just a little hum....

Checked it out and it appears the primary of the audio output transformer opened. (Since there is B+ on one side of the winding but not on the other).  Rats! I am assuming 
I can replace this with a garden variety 20K to 8 ohm output transformer, say around 8 watts. 

I was just thinking my projects were done for a while, and I could play with some of this stuff....
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