Hey Guys, I just picked up this receiver and man is she something'. It is in very nice condition and as you can see it looks like Georgia O'Keeffe did the veneering on the top..... (ya' sure she painted flowers) LOL
Anyway, the owner told me that it was given to him but he has never gotten it to make a sound. It powers up but no sound. :scratch2:
So I took it and opened her up only to find that 5 of the 9 fuses were gone. (might explain the 'no sound' symptom.) The bottom of one of the trans. had labels on it to tell you the value of the fuses but the other trans had no values. So I called HK and after being transferred to a # of folks I ended up with their chief tech. He was really nice and got out the schematics and told me each individual value. Thanks HK. :yes: Now this receiver has the 5x20mm fuses.(look like regular Buss fuses but shorter. Found some locally and put them in. WooHoo, she sings again but a few of the dial lights are out and the pots need cleaning. So to replace the dial lights, it looks like you have to remove the top panel which means that you will have to re-string the tuner. BUMMER. If anyone knows better please let me know before I go down this path.
It looks like whoever was in there before tried the same thing and screwed up the dial string. As you can see from the pics, The tension spring is just hanging off the string, not attached to anything and the string is as tight as a drum.
So, to make a long story even longer, is there anyone out in AK land that could possibly take a pic of there tuning wheel so I could see just how it's supposed to be?
Thanks for reading this and hope it all makes sense.
Pic 1 shows the fuse's and bottom of the trans.
Pic 2 shows the tuning wheel with the spring just hanging on the string.
Pic 3 shows the wheel again. Spring doing nothin'.
Pic 4 shows the tuning string attached to itself... shouldn't one end be attached to the wheel and the other end be attached to the spring that should be attached to the wheel??? This string connection shown is at dial midpoint. Dial pointer is 1" forward(down in the pic). You can't see it in this pic.
Pic 5 is the top veneer. I think I see an oyster opened up...
I do have all of the knobs, they are just off of the face for cleaning.
Anyway, the owner told me that it was given to him but he has never gotten it to make a sound. It powers up but no sound. :scratch2:
So I took it and opened her up only to find that 5 of the 9 fuses were gone. (might explain the 'no sound' symptom.) The bottom of one of the trans. had labels on it to tell you the value of the fuses but the other trans had no values. So I called HK and after being transferred to a # of folks I ended up with their chief tech. He was really nice and got out the schematics and told me each individual value. Thanks HK. :yes: Now this receiver has the 5x20mm fuses.(look like regular Buss fuses but shorter. Found some locally and put them in. WooHoo, she sings again but a few of the dial lights are out and the pots need cleaning. So to replace the dial lights, it looks like you have to remove the top panel which means that you will have to re-string the tuner. BUMMER. If anyone knows better please let me know before I go down this path.
It looks like whoever was in there before tried the same thing and screwed up the dial string. As you can see from the pics, The tension spring is just hanging off the string, not attached to anything and the string is as tight as a drum.
So, to make a long story even longer, is there anyone out in AK land that could possibly take a pic of there tuning wheel so I could see just how it's supposed to be?
Thanks for reading this and hope it all makes sense.
Pic 1 shows the fuse's and bottom of the trans.
Pic 2 shows the tuning wheel with the spring just hanging on the string.
Pic 3 shows the wheel again. Spring doing nothin'.
Pic 4 shows the tuning string attached to itself... shouldn't one end be attached to the wheel and the other end be attached to the spring that should be attached to the wheel??? This string connection shown is at dial midpoint. Dial pointer is 1" forward(down in the pic). You can't see it in this pic.
Pic 5 is the top veneer. I think I see an oyster opened up...
I do have all of the knobs, they are just off of the face for cleaning.
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