joe camilli
Member
My dad purchased the receiver new back when. He passed away 20 years ago, and the unit has been sitting in my parents’ house until my mom’s passing this March. My brother, who currently owns the house, said I should take the receiver or he was going to trash it. I brought it home with me and started to do some Google searching and found this forum. Which I am glad I did. While I was trying to decide what to do with the unit I reached out to a company in the northwest. After sending a couple of pictures they made a generous offer to buy the unit but the shipped would be a killer from Atlanta. I continued to read this forum. As a side note I am amateur (HAM) radio operator and just so happen I have all the necessary equipment to work on the receiver. So, I decided to re-cap, EC only, the receiver. Also, since a new PCB was available for the F2624 Driver build a new one. I place two orders for the parts the first to cover just the F2624 build and the second for all the other ECs. With the second order when it was received I separated the parts into a series of “mini-kits” I bagged all the ECs for each board. Along the way I also changed out the bulbs for LEDs. All parts were ordered from Mouser, Digikey or Arrow except for the LEDs which were from eBay. As of this posting I am almost finished with the recap work. I have included some pictures. The first two are the as is condition of the unit. The third is a “progress” picture with just a few ECs left to go.