[R-390] Racal RA17L repairs

[Tom Norris]

AB Bonds over on the boatanchors list just spent several
months refurbing one. Two words "never again". Seems
all the parts are mounted on little boards inside that
are perpendicular to the chassis. None of the components
are accessible unless you remove the whole board, he says.
Also on his it appears that in his particular receiver nearly
all the resistors were out of spec by at least fifty percent,
some much more, and all the caps were leaky.

Plays like new radio now. He did a wonderful job
with it and he had more patience than I would have
had.

I think he is close to being released from his stay at
the "inpatient facility." with the padded walls and the
funny jacket. Kept mumbling random things with a British
accent like "valves" and "colours" and "metres"...

Hopefully Roy had better luck!

heehee

Tom





>At 10:36 PM 7/7/2004 -0400, Bob Camp wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>There is a Racal list you might want to try as well. ...four posts 
>>in the last month  ... don't have much humor over there either ....
>
>Ugh. Is it the British heritage?
>
>ANY way, I would be happy to engage in a thread on the RA.17 (notice 
>that is R ... A ... dot ...  one seven.)
>
>I have one here, a model RA.17 UC.  This is an Uh-murrikan-ized 
>version with US tubes and some modifications.
>
>Any info on this variant welcome.
>
>Roy
>
>
>>What seems to be the matter with the radio? Maybe between the bunch 
>>of us here we can figure it out. Since the RA17 was a direct 
>>competitor to the 390 it's close enough to being on topic. It's 
>>certainly closer than the keilbasa thread ...
>>
>>         Enjoy!
>>
>>                 Bob Camp
>>                 KB8TQ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Jul 7, 2004, at 9:22 PM, JGolden365 at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>>Among all you experts in repairing R390A's is there anyone near 
>>>Rochester, NY
>>>who feels adventurous enough to take on a Racal RA17L?
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