My journey with the Scott Lt-112b continues. It all started with a swing by the Fort Walton Beach Waterfront Mission thrift store in 1995. There for $5.00 was this old FM tuner. It looked interesting so I took it home and opened it, and obviously some technical type had built it. Beautiful kit constructed was in evidence but it was dusty. It sounded quite good, stock. I had to clean it up so the dust in the dial face had to go. In hand was the air spray used on keyboards, a quick squeeze and the dust would be gone! Pfttzzzz and the numbers on the glass flew in all directions.
Now started the dead end journey to make my own numbers, the graphics are still on my hard drive somewhere. Abject failure and the tuner went into hiding where it rested for 1.5 decades. With the advent of EBay I purchased another one with the intent of switching parts around to make a good one. I started updating parts so I ended up with two nonfunctional hulks. In the meantime an updated one became available from Mike in Flint, MI. The hulks went out on auction.
Finally a working one. I kept the good knobs from the hulks. It became my favorite tuner. The FM beacon went out so it went into the repair pile. After moving to the retirement village I found myself in a terrible FM environment with the installed digital Onkyo 9090 and only a dipole. Undaunted I put the Scott on the workbench and resoldered all wires on the MTX board and replaced the resistor to the #49 bulb. Finally a visible stereo indicator. The local classical station (WFSQ) was now listenable and the FSU student station comes in really well in Stereo. I get 37 to 40 stations with all the clutter and grunge in our FM environment.
Everything in writing about this tuner is true. Thanks to Mike too.
Now started the dead end journey to make my own numbers, the graphics are still on my hard drive somewhere. Abject failure and the tuner went into hiding where it rested for 1.5 decades. With the advent of EBay I purchased another one with the intent of switching parts around to make a good one. I started updating parts so I ended up with two nonfunctional hulks. In the meantime an updated one became available from Mike in Flint, MI. The hulks went out on auction.
Finally a working one. I kept the good knobs from the hulks. It became my favorite tuner. The FM beacon went out so it went into the repair pile. After moving to the retirement village I found myself in a terrible FM environment with the installed digital Onkyo 9090 and only a dipole. Undaunted I put the Scott on the workbench and resoldered all wires on the MTX board and replaced the resistor to the #49 bulb. Finally a visible stereo indicator. The local classical station (WFSQ) was now listenable and the FSU student station comes in really well in Stereo. I get 37 to 40 stations with all the clutter and grunge in our FM environment.
Everything in writing about this tuner is true. Thanks to Mike too.