This is an awesome thread, and can't wait to see it finished and pretty.
The can thing killed two Fishers and a Dyna FM-3 here, I avoid vintage FM tuners as a matter of course now since I cannot align them after fooling with the IF can thing.Saw this one late.
OP, do yourself a huge favor and check those IF cans before you put too much elbow grease into this one.
With that much surface corrosion, I would be very concerned about moisture damage to those internal film micas. They sit at the can bases, right near that rusty chassis. Once wet stuff gets in and eats ‘em up, you either have to break down the cans and install new discrete micas, or source replacements. Neither one is a fun prospect. Lots o work on what is already a project case.
And the earlier comment about frozen cores is legit as well. You can’t tune an IF stage if the transformer core is welded in with corrosion.
A shiny waxed chassis is small consolation for a tuner that can’t be aligned.
This should suit your needs just fine:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-...soAAOSwMrBaegB9:sc:USPSFirstClass!30107!US!-1
I have no connection with the sale of this product - it just appears to offer the tools you need. If they don't work, check that the slugs have not been damaged by the use of inappropriate tools, making the tool fittings in the slugs too large now for the proper tools to work.
Dave
The only way the dial can work backwards is if the dial string is installed incorrectly -- nothing electrically will do that. In essence, the tuning cap is turning the wrong direction relative to the dial pointer.
Make sure the Stereo/Mono switch is clean, and that all tubes are lit. The KM-60 has plenty of sensitivity, using Fisher's best (in my opinion) front end, marketed as the Golden Cascode. Plus, that front end in my experience has virtually zero drift to it. The MPX section has to have something seriously wrong for it to not pass any signal at all. It, and the RF section are the two parts of the tuner that were factory built.
Dave