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Gabe001 · 20th Jun 2021, 3:05 pm

Back in business, but it took me the whole weekend to sort. I don't know how some of you do this for a living and manage to put food on the table!

The cavity in the paxolin was sealed and filled with milliput. The short is gone.

The set was silent as I disturbed one of the connections on the waveband switch as I was removing the charred area. Resoldering it sorted AM which is working well.

FM was a different story. It transpires that the reason why FM went out of alignment (XS Manchester at 106 appearing at the 100 mark and 2 stations stretched across the whole band) was because a solder joint between c9 and L5 had failed. I think it's OK now but I need to run it for a while and see.

Now I just need to fix the knobs I broke to get the set out...

20th Jun 2021, 3:05 pm	#22
Gabe001 Octode Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK. Posts: 1,646	Re: KB MR10 sudden fault, help needed Back in business, but it took me the whole weekend to sort. I don't know how some of you do this for a living and manage to put food on the table! The cavity in the paxolin was sealed and filled with milliput. The short is gone. The set was silent as I disturbed one of the connections on the waveband switch as I was removing the charred area. Resoldering it sorted AM which is working well. FM was a different story. It transpires that the reason why FM went out of alignment (XS Manchester at 106 appearing at the 100 mark and 2 stations stretched across the whole band) was because a solder joint between c9 and L5 had failed. I think it's OK now but I need to run it for a while and see. Now I just need to fix the knobs I broke to get the set out...