[Hallicrafters] Help with SX-42

[Edward B Richards]

Hi, it's me again;

I won't say how many days I spent looking for a short in subject. I found
B+ on the 2nd RF amp control grid (hard on 6AG5's). After deciphering the
schematic which shows each bandswitch wafer in 2 places with only one row
of contacts, some making to the front rotor and some to the rear rotor
and some to both, I found 500 ohms leakage from the front rotor (2nd RF
grid circuit) to the rear rotor (1st RF plate circuit) on wafer 1H-1HH.
It looks impossible to work on it in place and just as bad to get the
wafer out. Has anyone run across anything like this, and what did you do?
Any suggestions for getting the wafer out? Drill out the rivet and pull
the center flat shaft out the hole in the back of the chassis? Any advice
will be much appreciated.

73, Ed Richards K6UUZ