[Boatanchors] Zenith Transoceanic

Peter A Markavage manualman at juno.com
Wed Feb 25 20:11:59 EST 2009


It might be helpful for comments to pass along the model number. There
were a number of Transoceanics.

Pete, wa2cwa
 
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:42:40 -0500 bonddaleena at aol.com writes:
> 
> Hi to all. Not sure if this is the correct group, but I have to 
> start 
> somewhere......
> 
> My buddy asked me to look at his old Zenith radio. It's rough, but 
> he 
> doesn't want it 'restored', just working.
> It makes noise and a check of the tubes revealed a bad 1U4. I have 
> some 
> coming. Is there anything I need to look out for on this old timer?
> I am a big proponent of re-capping old radios. However, with the 1 
> volt 
> tubes, what is the B+ voltage?
> Will new caps help? Never even seen one of these before, never mind 
> 
> worked on one! ha ha
> 
> tnx
> 
> ron
> N4UE


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