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g0hze snowy · 3rd Jun 2020, 7:03 pm

Techman, some bad news, very many of the resistors had been replaced with a cheap substitute, a great many of them had the end caps off, looked ok but O/C when tested, far too many to justify many hours of work to replace them again.
The main smoothing cap fooled me, as well as the 2 x 50mf caps it also had the 4mf used in the output stages.
I saved the speakers and valves, ( I had already purchased 2 x new EL95,s that will teach me to jump the gun huh).
I did marvel at the clutch mech used to tune VHF or back to MW, I bet that this radio cost a bomb when manufactured in the early 50's.
Then display glass was in 3 or 4 pieces with shards missing.
Thanks to you and the other gents for your help and advice.

3rd Jun 2020, 7:03 pm	#13
g0hze snowy Hexode Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK. Posts: 336	Re: Grundig 3086 Techman, some bad news, very many of the resistors had been replaced with a cheap substitute, a great many of them had the end caps off, looked ok but O/C when tested, far too many to justify many hours of work to replace them again. The main smoothing cap fooled me, as well as the 2 x 50mf caps it also had the 4mf used in the output stages. I saved the speakers and valves, ( I had already purchased 2 x new EL95,s that will teach me to jump the gun huh). I did marvel at the clutch mech used to tune VHF or back to MW, I bet that this radio cost a bomb when manufactured in the early 50's. Then display glass was in 3 or 4 pieces with shards missing. Thanks to you and the other gents for your help and advice.