[Milsurplus] RE: [R-390] Fair Radio R-390A??

[AI2Q]

Hi Paul:

My R-390 was salvaged from a house fire. The house burned to the ground on
Xmas Eve 28 years ago. The set was then stored in an outside shed for 24
years. When I opened it up the interior was covered with mouse droppings,
and there was a large mouse skeleton inside the top cover. The set was
black, black, black---everywhere.

I completely dis-assembled mine, including removal of the racks, and opening
up of each and every RF-deck coil can (they plug in using sub-mini
silver-plated banana jacks), and other coil assemblies. I inspected, tested,
hand-cleaned and polished everything..

Even the Veeder-Root counter was totally blackened inside and out. The
switches had to be especially carefully cleaned, too, but the MFP and coil
dope preserved everything else perfectly.  All of the original tubes checked
out good on my tube tester. Even the pilot lamps were still good. That's
testimony to MIL-spec design and construction, eh?

I did replace one open resistor and an open relay rectifier.

After re-assembling it, I totally aligned it....and it's been playing
excellently in my shack ever since. It's one FB set.

My advice: don't re-cap unless necessary, and then only where necessary. I
think the caps are higher quality than those of the R-390A (perhaps other
listers can substantiate that, or not).

Good luck with it. Keep us all posted.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Kennebunk, Maine
http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm

 .-.-.




-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
Behalf Of Paul Staupe
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:12 PM
To: Jim Shorney
Cc: collins at mailman.qth.net; r-390 at mailman.qth.net;
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Fair Radio R-390A??


Jim,

Yes,  I have the rare non-A version that's in modules all over my living
room... while I try to figure out how to clean them without ruining them,
not to mention whether to re-cap or not re-cap...

Maybe I could re-assemble it as a left handed version too!!!  (hi, hi)

There's a lot of info on the "A" version, but don't know a lot about the
re-capping of the non-A.

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Paul WØAD
Kansas City



Jim Shorney wrote:

On Wed, 12 May 2004 18:46:34 -0500, K3PID wrote:

  I received a new Fair Radio catalog today and was amused to see the R-390A
listed on page 3. Look at the picture and you'll see that not only is it an
R-390 (non A) but the picture is reversed (exposed from the wrong side).
Just a point of interest!


That would be the rare "left-handed" version of the R-390 (non-right).


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