10 Gauge
02-18-2009, 10:05 AM
Well I finally figured out why the ears on the Cam 88 were so terrible. After suffering with the crappy RX I decided to take it over to 150's shop and have him put all the tubes on the tester, and all of them checked out fairly deep in the "Good" range of the meter except for one which had the needle deep in the "Replace" range, after checking out the service manual and schematics for it, that tube was part of the RX side of the radio, which would explain the crappy ears.
So, need to get me a 12BA6 tube or equivalent and she should be rockin' and rollin'!
I seem to also have a problem either with the channel selector dial or maybe have a crystal out. We could have sworn up and down that channels 6-9 worked when we first plugged it in and then after doing some testing those channels didnt have anything on them, then some other random channels went out but after fiddling with the selector they popped back on, still couldn't get 6-9 to come back in though. Gonna have to look harder in to that one, I am leaning towards a blown crystal.....
Anyone have a parts donor they wanna give me? :o I know I can get the tube cheaply and easily enough for about $8, not sure about the crystal though, might have to have one grown?
So, need to get me a 12BA6 tube or equivalent and she should be rockin' and rollin'!
I seem to also have a problem either with the channel selector dial or maybe have a crystal out. We could have sworn up and down that channels 6-9 worked when we first plugged it in and then after doing some testing those channels didnt have anything on them, then some other random channels went out but after fiddling with the selector they popped back on, still couldn't get 6-9 to come back in though. Gonna have to look harder in to that one, I am leaning towards a blown crystal.....
Anyone have a parts donor they wanna give me? :o I know I can get the tube cheaply and easily enough for about $8, not sure about the crystal though, might have to have one grown?