[R-390] Broke 390 latest

[James Miller]

Oh I forgot, as to what you should do with the 390.  Sell it and get
your 390a back if you can!  

jlap1939@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Please feel free to help...or "cuss" me out...This is
> going to be pretty long...
> 
> Decided that I doubted the old mans "borrowed" tube..
> (he wanted $5, and I already gave him $5 to use his
> tester..) Talked him into letting me try it again..
> then used alcohol on it, and got it under sunlight..
> It was a 6CB6, not 6AK6...That means the pin two
> connect was cathode, not 1st grid (or screen), so I
> guess that would not work...6AU6 seems to have same
> base.(or does it?): see below and suggest. (I have 1)
> or must I have only a 6AK6? That tube having a broke
> pin would stop the audio, right? (It was pin one).
> When I took it back to him a second time, he was
> really mad...(and I thought I was an old crab....).
> Do you think I hurt anything with the 6CB6 in circuit?
> 
> Took apart the connect on radio end of power
> cord..(the 4 pin plug) and it had a wire that must
> have
> "arced"..(How do you spell that...how about arched?)
> Repaired...maybe that was the extra "noise" I heard...
> 
> Drove to R. Shack...They no longer send off for
> tubes..(I didn't know that. Its sad for me, as they
> were close, and easy, if not cheap or always good
> quality.)
> Someone tell me the best quick place to get a few
> tubes..*(If you can, or wish, offer me some part of a
> set and I will send you the money...don't want to buy
> whole set right now, but would buy the most common
> "trouble" tubes if you want to sell..I mean to keep
> the radio...)
> 
> I believe that the broken pin may be the real pro.
> (other than the one regarding not using a bag. to see
> the printing on a pro-offered tube...I don't know the
> "insides" well enough to tell..but the old service
> tech. should have...). Too bad I didn't spend the time
> on this radio, that I put in the 390a I had...I got to
> where I could set the alignment, and new what was
> acting up, without instruments on that radio, (to a
> limited degree)...even tho I never figured out the
> "drifting" alignment...(Some of you may remember
> that...)
> 
> Even if I get help, and this unit is repaired, I still
> seem to want another radio...Is this normal behavior?
> It has just come on me in the last month..My wife
> doesn't know it yet...
> 
> What should I do???
> 
> My Best Regards,
> 
> John
> 
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