New rebuild project, Raytheon!

[Eric H]

I got tired of the beat up Olympic I've been working on for the last two months, off & on so it's time for a new project.

I picked this Raytheon 10DX24 up from eBay after the price dropped to 1/3 of it's original listing price, had it packed and shipped very reasonably (by "The Packaging Store") via truck to my work, it arrived without a scratch.

It's in beautiful condition with some minor scratches and dings and missing one knob.


The chassis is in very good condition but it was covered in a thick layer of dust, looked a lot like dryer lint or very fine sawdust.
In the picture I've already cleaned it up a bit

This set must have a lot of hours on it, a dead CRT and a lot of replacement tubes, mostly Westinghouse with 1953 date codes.


I don't see any replacement parts underneath however.

The original 1949 dated Raytheon CRT (made in Canada!) was toast, nearly dead, even 8 volts only got it half way good so I tapped it lightly three times with the B&K 466, after the third tap it came up to really good and has stayed there so there may be some life left in it still, I have a different one I can use if not.

I rebuilt one of these a couple years ago for someone else and have wanted one since then, it's an interesting chassis with a few unusual features like the weird tuner and the rf generated HV supply.