Sonora 50s metal portable

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I'm enjoying working on it because it's something different. I have more Admirals, Motorolas and RCAs to get to and this is a nice break. It's also nice that it matches the Sams service info perfectly

I just finished recapping tonight and the set has really opened up with the much smaller new caps. Check out this comparison.

At the top is the original 0.5 uF @ 200v cap.

Below that are

0.47 @ 630V
0.47 @ 400v
0.47 @ 250v

Amazingly, the smallest one at the bottom is a new line from Panasonic - 0.47uF @ 450 volts!


Here's one of the two green 1N60 germanium diodes. This one is used in the sync circuit. The other is a detector hidden inside an IF can. I hope they're still good.


This was the most annoying cap to get at. I had to bend back some metal tabs and unmount the contrast control to gt at it.


The horizontal wave shape coil was damaged but some epoxy cement fixed it right up.


So here it is just about done. Tomorrow I'll recoat the flyback and start putting it back together. I had to order a couple oddball tubes types that should be hear in a few days. Soon I hope to hear that strange sound you described