[Hallicrafters] S-76 questions

[Jack Antonio]

I have a couple questions on an S-76 that followed me home
last week, and am wondering if someone is willing to look
inside theirs to answer them.

This concerns the bracket that holds the two shafts for
the tuning and bandspread knobs and the shaft for the
intermediate bandspread pulley.

On mine, it looks like the bracket is bent, and there
is a missing "C" clip on the intermediate pulley shaft,
and I'd like to find out if this is the way it is supposed
to be, or not. There is probably a quarter inch of fore and
aft play in that shaft. Is there supposed to be a spring washer
on this shaft like the shafts for the knobs?

Second, how much fore and aft play should there be in the
shafts for the tuning and bandspread knobs? On mine, the
two spring washers are flattened and essentially doing nothing.
I came up with a short term fix, but am wondering how it was
configured originally.

It looks like someone attemped a dial restring in the past. The
main dial cord is not "by the book" and the bandspread cord was
stretched, brittle, and its tension spring was bent up.

Thanks in advance

Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4