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Marantz/Superscope R-350 help

jeeem

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I'm new at this, trying to teach myself how to do minor repairs on pieces in my collection of vintage audio equipment. I have a Superscope R-350 (those crazy magenta radio dials!) and am trying to figure out how to replace the burned out pointer lamp, but I'm not sure what kind of lamp will work. The parts list that accompanies the service manual doesn't give details (volts, amps, etc.), as far as I can tell (see below).

Also, I see in the "exploded" diagram a board that appears to hold fuses, but ... where is it hiding? I've looked at it from all sides and haven't been able to find it.

Anybody here familiar with the innards of this receiver?

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I have a replacement lamp for the dial pointer. I also have several replacement fuse lamps if you need any of those. They are VERY easy to access and replace. If you look directly behind your dial pointer you'll see an L shaped piece of plastic with a screw and a wire tie. Remove or just loosen that screw. On the opposite side you'll see another L shaped piece of plastic oriented the opposite direction. Loosen or remove THAT screw, the fuse lamp assembly can then be simply moved backward and tilted up for easy replacement of the lamps.

I would happily send you the needed lamps free of charge, but would ask a small favor in return: If you could, please take pictures of your dial string assembly from multiple angles so that I can have a frame of reference with which to attempt to restring MY 350.. Before I realized how easy it actually was to change out those lamps, I had messed up my dial string and haven't been able to get it back together.
 
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