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7th Jun 2020, 4:10 pm | #1 |
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Hacker Mayflower II (RV20)
A chap on another forum mentioned that he had substituted an ECC88 for the ECC85 in the VHF tuner head of his Hacker Mayflower as it was a superior valve. Can you do that without having to re-align the tuner head. The ECC88 is a frame grid valve so will presumably have different inter-electrode capacitances.
TimR
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12th Jul 2020, 2:33 pm | #2 |
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Re: Hacker Mayflower II (RV20)
The answer to this one is......yes. I was speaking to Richard of Past Times Radio and he confirmed that I could just substitute the new valve and it would work fine but with slightly better sensitivity. That's exactly what happened.
Tim(R)
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