[R-390] Re: R-391 restoration update

[Paul H. Anderson]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bill Smith wrote:

> Stating the obvious... use a temperature controlled soldering iron such as a

> Another hint, get a "Solder-Pullit" solder-sucker.  You can heat a

Both are great inventions!  Thankfully, I have been using them.  I can't
always get a mil-spec soldering connection to replace the ones that were
there, but I can usually do ok - better than the military repairs I see.

I was checking signals in the radio, when it went dead silent on me
tonight - a bit of checking showed that the VFO tube went belly up.  
Replacing that, and tweaking alignment a little bit, and the radio is
actually working pretty good, now!  Fairly quiet, fairly selective, and so
on.  It needs a full alignment, of course, and some further repair work,
but I'm happy to see all my effort pay off!

16-32 MC is very silent, so I get to check that problem, out, too.

So far, I have to say that I'm impressed with how it sounds.  I'm hard of
hearing, so I'm sure this must be incredibly subjective, but still, I seem
able to understand speech on it fairly well.  Time to get an A/B switch
for my antenna and headphones... (*:

Paul