T8PL39 RESTORATION WORK |
This is a receiver for a direction-finding system. The receiver is monstrously heavy no matter how it's disassembled. |
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Front of the receiver. The paint is OK, but will require some cleaning. The controls will have to be re-painted. |
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Face plate off, showing the mechanics underneath. Very complex and expensive design and mechanics. The name "Fortuna" probably was the assembler or tester of this receiver. |
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Headphone terminals, power and mode controls. Selective vacuum tube voltmeter. All rusted parts will have to be refurbished. |
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The frequency scale system - beautiful construction. |
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Signal intensity meter along with other controls. This was critical for accurate direction finding. |
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All the parts are there - but need various degrees of restoration. |
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Rust. Rust. Rust. - the writing around the tube openings was done by hand. |
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Some of the debris pulled out of the receiver. |
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Cracked retaining bracked for the third frequency range HF section. |
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Rust. Clean-up and restoration. |
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The fine-tuning adjustment gear. This light rust needs to be carefully cleaned up. |
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The fine-tuning adjustment gear. This light rust needs to be carefully cleaned up. |
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Interior of the case. |
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Power connector. |
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Cables going to the direction finding antenna and control system. |
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Unknown component. |
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This connector system couples the receiver to the direction-finding complex. |
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The on/off switch disassembled for cleaning. It is completely serviceable and comes apart quite easily. |
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During the restoration of the selective voltmeter, after removing the back Bakelite contact gasket, the next layer can be seen here. Note the yellow arrows pointing to the guides/rivets. I am still in the process of figuring out how to remove this Bakelite layer from the rest of the switch. If anyone has experience dismantling these switches, please contact me. |
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This is the bottom-most layer of the selective voltmeter switch. |