[Boatanchors] Drake 2-B Coil chart?

Barry Pfeil barrypfeil at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 14:00:29 EST 2018


Soon will be doing alignment on a recently-revived Drake 2-B.  Anybody know
a source for a chart or photo identifying tuning coil locations?  I can
make one myself from the schematic but would rather not re-invent the wheel
if I don't have to.

Just as an aside, I have had this unit on the "to be repaired" shelf for
over a year.  When I bought it (mostly because it was physically VERY
clean) it just did NOT sound like a radio.  Long story short, the person
who last worked on it bypassed the original electrolytics (leaving the
originals in-circuit!) AND they left out the resistors that were across the
cap. can terminals that are part of the B-plus divider network! I other
words, they just destroyed the thing and left it for dead.  Sad.

Anyway, I have successfully revived it and it sounds great.  In some casual
listening on 80 and 40 CW, it actually hears just about everything my K3
hears.  As one of the rigs in the 1963 Allied catalog that I always drooled
over, it is SO great to have one of my own.

Sorry for the digression.  Hope someone has a chart.

73, Barry K6RM


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