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JoshWard · 13th Jan 2019, 10:32 pm

I didn't notice it was a VTR when scrolling through the lots until your post prompted me into looking twice!

I have now snipped the screen leads in both sets and they work beautifully on AM. I have plenty of substitutes for the AM side of things. Not sure what to put in the FM front end of the VTR though as I am guessing they are a bit more critical?

I fired up the Pye MM this morning. It works after a fashion, sadly it has the usual tuning cap trouble and is shorting out over most of it's travel. Without making a new mount for it there's not much that can be done sadly. Modern broadcasts just sound wrong on an 88 year old radio anyway so I will probably stick with listening to music from the period through the gram socket. It has had a lot of work done in the past but the capacitor block appears to be the original pitch filled one and that started to get a little warm and odd noises began to emanate from it so I will remove the power supply and replace those caps.

13th Jan 2019, 10:32 pm	#20
JoshWard Octode Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Near Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK. Posts: 1,962	Re: Radio auction in Diss, Norfolk I didn't notice it was a VTR when scrolling through the lots until your post prompted me into looking twice! I have now snipped the screen leads in both sets and they work beautifully on AM. I have plenty of substitutes for the AM side of things. Not sure what to put in the FM front end of the VTR though as I am guessing they are a bit more critical? I fired up the Pye MM this morning. It works after a fashion, sadly it has the usual tuning cap trouble and is shorting out over most of it's travel. Without making a new mount for it there's not much that can be done sadly. Modern broadcasts just sound wrong on an 88 year old radio anyway so I will probably stick with listening to music from the period through the gram socket. It has had a lot of work done in the past but the capacitor block appears to be the original pitch filled one and that started to get a little warm and odd noises began to emanate from it so I will remove the power supply and replace those caps.