project 1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[hairnet]

You can lie to us but not to yourself. Admit it, you love this shit.

 

 

I do, yes.

other people do coke and hookers or gardening or diy or many drink

 

phil does this

[somewhatfoolish]

As a rugrat the kitchen had a cuboid radio with a big dial on the front perpetually tuned to Radio Scotland; it was powered by a PP7 or possibly PP9 which never seemed to need changing. In those days it was essentially radio 2 with a scottish accent, Jimmy Mack spinning discs and dinner was eaten to the sound of 'Take the floor' with Robbie Shepherd, or 'Eastern echoes' which to this day I associate with dinners I don't like, even though I can't remember what the dinners I didn't like were.

 

Google search suggests it was a Boots Supertone 7, like this only black rather than red.

 

 

 

 

[PhilA]

You made me go look for radios.

 

I recall having a radio in the kitchen as a child. Grundig Party Boy (what a name).

 

Phil

[Zelandeth]

That's not too bad. Just do it one component leg at a time and you will be fine.

 

If the leads are all wrapped as well as soldered I would just snip one leg, solder the new one in, snip the second one, solder replacement in.

 

Component count is low enough it shouldn't take too long really.

[PhilA]

Normally I would agree. The legs aren't wound on, but there's plenty of through-hole and to-chassis connections that I am a little concerned my iron won't have enough heat in for.

 

That and there's a bunch of resistors that need the two components above them removing before they can be liberated.

 

There aren't too many though, no.

 

Phil

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

As a kid we had a radio in the kitchen as well.

When we went out in the Bedford HA van it slipped into a cage fitted under the dash and it became the car radio.

IIRC being a portable meant no Wireless Licence needed!

[hairnet]

You made me go look for radios.

I recall having a radio in the kitchen as a child. Grundig Party Boy (what a name).

Phil

The Irish grandparents had a 208 version on the kitchen windowsill for as long as we went visiting so at least 35 years

 

Uncle Shay might still have it somewhere

[PhilA]

I went to make a start on the radio, and discovered that my VTVM has died.

 

Yay for setbacks. Not that it really mattered, because at that point work called and I got stuck doing somebody else's job for 2 hours.

 

 

Phil

[LightBulbFun]

vacuum tube volt meter...

 

ill say thats a first for me

 

very interesting

[PhilA]

Incredibly high input impedance, so you can measure delicate circuits without collapsing the voltage present.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

 

Bad contacts found, remedied and calibration procedure completed again. We are back in business.

 

Phil

[tooSavvy]

What a fab gizzmo.... No TV repair guy would be without one [bitd]?

[PhilA]

Even today, still cheaper to pick up than a high-end Fluke, particularly a high-impedance meter.

 

--Phil

[hairnet]

found out that the radio the gparents had and think shay still has was a yacht boy

 

which insane people on ebay want 75 or 90 quid for

 

phil may i ask - would it be possible to have something posted from GA to philtowers please

 

catfish and sweet potato pie and other southern delicacies as payment (and gratitude)

 

thanks yall

[PhilA]

Sure thing. So long as it's not an entire car or a pottery garden model of the statue of liberty that's fine

[hairnet]

 So long as it's not an entire car

so if it was pre 60 youd not mind

 

thanks yall

 

ps RAODTRIP IS OAN!!!!!!!!!!!

[hairnet]

has to fit in here so stone statues are out

[PhilA]

so if it was pre 60 youd not mind

 

thanks yall

 

ps RAODTRIP IS OAN!!!!!!!!!!!

Me no. The wife, yes.

[hairnet]

hang on youve had shonky reno for a long time

 

anything else is improvement no>???

[PhilA]

Doesn't mean she likes the car. She'd rather I got rid of it.

 

The Chieftain is acceptable

[PhilA]

Building up a list of components that I need to repair this radio. Thankfully I have a number of the parts on the shelf, as it were.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

$53 in new parts.

 

Still need to grab another radio of the same vintage to thieve a power transformer from.

 

Phil

[Zelandeth]

$53 in new parts.

 

Still need to grab another radio of the same vintage to thieve a power transformer from.

This

Phil

What you needing? Just seems worth asking as it's quite possible I've got stuff in stock you'd be welcome to. Postage for small stuff over to there isn't too bad really (unlike posting this way!).

[vulgalour]

Nixie toobs!

[PhilA]

Vibrator supply transformer, 12V to whatever rectifies to 250VDC through a gas rectifier.

 

The rest of the components I'm just gonna shotgun and upgrade a little- new carbon comp for the RF section, metal film for the IF and AF stages.

 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Nixie toobs!

If the car didn't already have a clock in, I would have retrofit it with a nice Nixie tube clock. Because jet age.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Good example of how old stuff stops working properly. These two resistors are an important part of the oscillator circuit.

 

6.8 MegOhm - blue gray green

 

On the Meg scale, reading about 1.5 Meg (blue arrow, top measurement arc)

 

This claim is backed up by the digital meter

 

Moving along to its neighbor

 

Orange orange yellow - 330kOhm

On the 100k scale, needle around about 470k.

 

This radio wouldn't have worked worth toffee.

 

 

Phil

[tooSavvy]

Roll On.... :/

 

I'm planning to fit my 'plip locking kit' today

 

12v live wire

Ground wire

 

Control Open

Control Lock

 

Common Ground

 

.... try not to set fire to anything.

 

*I have a 12v test screwdriver + croc & a meter, so going Loaded For Bear lol

 

Correction >> preliminary venture into Cable Jungle phale!

 

Muchho loombindings mean industrial strength crowbar wielding to exhume my traces... Doh :/

[somewhatfoolish]

If the car didn't already have a clock in, I would have retrofit it with a nice Nixie tube clock. Because jet age.

 

Phil

 

I caught 'Goldfinger' on the tellybox the other night; nice nixie counter on the nuclear bomb at the end.

[Zelandeth]

I caught 'Goldfinger' on the tellybox the other night; nice nixie counter on the nuclear bomb at the end.

Close! It's actually a light pipe based incandescent display. Uses clear plastic sheets with etched digits on one side with a lamp mounted to either the side. Visually very similar and unlikely to be told apart other than by a display tech nerd...like me...as they look very alike.

 

Big giveaway? Colour. If it's white it's not Nixie based.

 

Have seen them in a few bits of test gear but never as widely as Nixie's. Easier to drive, probably a bit cheaper...but more power hungry, hotter running and of course less long lived. No use where having a digit potentially failing could be a safety issue obviously.