[HBR] hbr - cabinet, chassis, Eddystone 898 Dial FS

[Walt Hutchens]

Kris said:

> Mounted in the chassis are eight tube sockets, a five gang ceramic
> switch, a two-gang ceramic switch, misc small components.

The five-gang switch (most likely a bandswitch) hints that this wasn't
planned as an HBR per W6TC. However it has many of the major parts
that would be needed, including some of those that are the most
difficult to locate.  And if the metalwork is good and can be recycled
you've saved 10-20 hours of painstaking work.

The Eddystone dial is a layout/metalwork challenge; if someone has
done a nice job setting that up for you, that's worth something.

While it could probably be re-kitted and rebuilt either as a
bandswitching receiver OR a W6TC design, going with bandswitching will
sacrifice most of the excellence of the plug in coil design: Both
strong signal performance and stability will suffer.

A bandswitching design, however, might not be laid out with room for
plug in coils. A new top plate on the chassis would be one
possibility.

Walt
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