Fw: RE: [Heathkit] Good idea...really!

[john]

Hi Garey,

I have an Apache I got from a Goodwill store that was in the same 
conditions. The manual was checked off to the "testing" stage, where the 
checkmark stopped. The fellow had shorted one of the filament runs to a  LV 
B+ lug of a adjacent tube socket, which blew up one of the EL34 modulator 
tube filaments (which was thoughtfully pulled from its socket, wrapped up 
in cardboard and left inside the chassis). I've still got the rig, and I 
wondered the same thing...all that work, to result in that smoke and zap, 
and disgustedly stuffed in a closet for 25 yrs.  Everything else was fine, 
and the short was hard to see, but it was the ONLY thing wrong with the rig.

It's still in the radio room perking away. I think the builder would like 
it that way!

John K5MO


At 03:52 PM 7/10/2006, Garey Barrell wrote:

>The general wiring job was outstanding, and everything else was fine.  I 
>can't help but think of the poor soul who probably saved what was a LOT of 
>money in those days, spent a week or more building it, (with a little 
>extra time to glue the broken switch wafer,) and got little or no output 
>power.  Then the first time he turned the bandswitch it re-broke that
>_inaccessable_  VFO switch!   I assume he put it in a closet and tried to 
>forget it, no doubt swearing off Ham Radio for the duration!  :-)






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