Your results may vary, hi.
Let me know if this found it’s way to you. Big problem with these is they go microphonic because of the VFO. I took a few of these apart in the beginning and kept finding bit of plastic rolling round in the VFO. Well apparently they had a micro phonic problem and just glued a piece of plastic in place. Worked for the first 50 years? I think that is covered in Elcon manual about reversing the VFO. If you are going to bring one of these back there are some things you really need to do. Mirophonic, if your not familiar with the term is an old one goes back to hi-fi gear. Means when you tap it you get a boing, sorta echo? Anyway if you take the cover off the VFO and tap on it it will probably make some interesting noises on receive. Then look for the piece of plastic that has probably fallen down into the cheese grader and hope someone didn’t use a pair of pliers to turn the VFO. At any rate dig it out and bridge all the components in the VFO. I use copper braid on the big gaps. One problem solved. Get rid of the divider on the back of the pre-mix board. That was a bandaid they tried and it causes the radio to not track between tx/rx minutely. Just enough that it appears the other person is of freq. just a bit. Hence, “crab walking”. Very important to clean everything before starting. I really do wash them with soap and water as I did Collins and even TV’s back in the day. Water doesn’t hurt electronics components. Electricity hurts electronic components, if they are wet. This time of year not much sun so set in front of wood burner for a couple of days. I normally hose out all wafer switches an front panel switches at this time with fu-fu juice. I try to do it while still wet to displace the water. Fu-fu juice. Back in the day they called it tuner wash. But since TV’s don’t have tuners anymore it called contact cleaner. THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME! Use non silicon fortified cleaner! It only collects dust. De-oxit is aggressive but works.
Hope this helps and found it to where it is supposed to go?
Back to work here.
Cheers
Dave
