I've had a pair of Infinity bookshelf speakers laying around for a couple years, pretty decent sounding once I refoamed the woofers. I got a call from someone wanting speakers the other day, decided to offer up the Infinities to the guy since I no longer use them. That's when he asked if I would do a trade for his dad's old Fisher stereo, hmmm, what model I asked. He told me it was a 400, and that all it does is produce a god awful hum with no music. So I told him to bring it and that I was interested, to make a long story short, I jumped all over it once I saw the condition. This receiver has all original tubes, never messed with underneath, and carries the famous 65 watts sticker on the dial.
So I started this morning on a total restoration under chassis, and just finished 6-1/2 hours later. New cans, all other normal cap replacements done, sampling resistors, screen stability resistors, and new diodes. Fired it up slowly on the variac and dbt, she plays wonderful sound now, no issues what so ever except one pair of tubes are showing pretty weak at .17V and .19V. The other pair are .36V and .31V.
The FM works super good, dial is dead on and tuning tube bars operate very well. I will have to add the resister to limit the dancing bars, but this receiver is ready for a second life after possibly a couple tubes getting replaced. So this is yet another feather under my hat, super pleased with this one.
So I started this morning on a total restoration under chassis, and just finished 6-1/2 hours later. New cans, all other normal cap replacements done, sampling resistors, screen stability resistors, and new diodes. Fired it up slowly on the variac and dbt, she plays wonderful sound now, no issues what so ever except one pair of tubes are showing pretty weak at .17V and .19V. The other pair are .36V and .31V.
The FM works super good, dial is dead on and tuning tube bars operate very well. I will have to add the resister to limit the dancing bars, but this receiver is ready for a second life after possibly a couple tubes getting replaced. So this is yet another feather under my hat, super pleased with this one.
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