[Milsurplus] AN/MRC-55 (AN/GRC-14) technical article

[Meir WF2U]

I have the whole shebang: a pair of R-808's (their serial numbers are one number apart), the T-631, the power supply, the original interconnect cables, and the two telephone remotes. What I don't have is the - obviously unobtanium - mounting tray.
I can't get the transmitter to operate. The master oscillator works in the calibrate mode, when I go to transmit it stops. All the voltages are OK into the modules. I did some equivalent tube swaps - my initial thinking was that one of the relay driver tubes is bad. I also used Deoxit on the tube sockets, relay sockets, connectors and reseated everything several times. No change. 
I left the whole thing open so I can get back to it later when I have time. I'm planning to try to drive the finals from an external source. If I get output, I'll look into the whole driver chain. There is an "Emergency" manual tune mode, so even there is a problem with the PA autotune, it can be still tuned by manually controlling the tuning motors. I hope I'll find the problem before I run out of patience... 
When I bought the set several years ago, I was told that it was working... Arghhh!

73, Meir WF2U
Landrim, SC

On October 21, 2015 11:08:59 PM EDT, Richard Solomon <dickw1ksz at gmail.com> wrote:
>Has anyone seen the T-631 ? Never saw one out
>here. I did have an R-808, but it's long gone.
>
>It would be fun playing with the Transmitter though.
>
>73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I just came across this article about AN/MRC-55 and AN/GRC-14
>> www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-ITT/60s/ITT-Vol-36-1960-04.pdf
>> article starts on page 276 (pdf page 52)
>>
>> Nick England K4NYW
>> www.navy-radio.com
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