I have been accused of many things, but speed has never been one of them
You may think this restoration is taking a long time: well I can't deny that it is, but the whole purpose is to enjoy the process and that means, that for me, it takes as long as it takes!
Anyway, I have now rebuilt the Fireball tuner, which is now ready to be wired in and bolted back on the chassis. This is a very compact little unit, and goodness only knows how they assembled it in the factory. Luckily, only the 10K screen resistor to the pentode needed replacing and this was fairly accessible. I could barely see most of the other resistors, let alone get to them to change them! They were close enough in value to be left alone.
The end result is that I get continuity between all the bits that I would expect, and most importantly, the contacts on the rotary coil disk.
So I am fairly confident it will work. Many thanks to John, (HCShort) for sending me a vital spring and a nice new metal cover for it- it really looks like a new tuner now :thumbsup
Cheers Nick