[R-390] Another yard sale find tale

[Alex]

 While we're playing "Top This," here's my story:

 A few years ago I got a call from a ham in Portsmouth, New Hampshire who
 said he had an R390A for me, but it was a real mess.

 I went down to look at it, but he wasn't home. He had left it in front of
 his garage, with a note attached saying "please take this away."

 It was not an R390A, but an R390!  It had been in a house fire, and was
 totally blackened. When I opened the cabinet there was a mouse skeleton
 inside. However, a thorough cleaning and disassembly/re-assembly (including
 pulling all those beautiful RF deck coils out of those miniature
 silver-plated banana plug sockets) brought it up to its original look and
 function. All the tubes checked good. I did an alignment and it worked FB.
 It's still in my shack, and performs beautifully.

 Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
 Member: ARRL, FOC, RSGB, QRP-L, Antique Wireless Association, Wide Area
 Amateur Radio Network
 http://home.roadrunner.com/~alexmm
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