[Boatanchors] pto

[bavarianradio at comcast.net]

Hi David,
 The PTO had been  modified before I got it, the trimmer capacitor had been 
replaced with a  physically larger one and the cover for it was missing. It 
worked but was way out of calibration. I don't know if any turns had been 
removed or not. In a fit of stupidity, I replaced all the match stick caps with 
ceramic NPO's which of course stopped the pto from working alltogether. I took 
it out of the radio a year ago with the intentions of figuring out where I went 
wrong and to try to iron out the previous tinkerers mods when I found a 
replacement pto and some other choice parts (I believe it was on this forum)  
for sale. I recently acquired these parts and am now going to attempt to 
complete the radio. In the interest of time (being that I'm self employed and 
time is money)  I think transplanting the 70E15 may be a more efficient way of 
handling this issue. I will of course make any mods reversible  and keep the old 
pto to restore in the future. (or for posterity to do so)  I am assumi
ng (a dangerous activity) that the rest of the radio is still working, it's been close to 10 
years since I powered it up. I did replace all the paper caps and electrolytics 
way back when, they should still be OK. I'll keep you posted on progress with 
this baby. I actually didn't know that it was a J2 until a year ago because the 
J2 is not on the front panel. J2 appears on the ID tag on the rear apron. 
Strangeley the space for the serial number is blank. Could this be the holy 
grail??? 73's Ross