Hello, I have recapped most of the radio and plugged it in to make sure it works for the first time, and it will play for a while, then the volume will drop a lot. In order to get volume back, you must turn dial down to the low end of the freq down to about 900 khz, and you will hear a pop and volume is back, you can then turn dial back up to high end, and it will play for a while. At first, it would only play for less than a minute then volume would drop, so I lubed tuning condenser, dont know if that helped or not, but now it might play for at least 20 minutes or so. there are only a couple of bakelite caps I havnt done yet, and the multi caps are not done yet either, but I dont know if this is typicial of any one thing or not, ............never run across this type of failure

:Hello, I have recapped most of the radio and plugged it in to make sure it works for the first time, and it will play for a while, then the volume will drop a lot. In order to get volume back, you must turn dial down to the low end of the freq down to about 900 khz, and you will hear a pop and volume is back, you can then turn dial back up to high end, and it will play for a while. At first, it would only play for less than a minute then volume would drop, so I lubed tuning condenser, dont know if that helped or not, but now it might play for at least 20 minutes or so. there are only a couple of bakelite caps I havnt done yet, and the multi caps are not done yet either, but I dont know if this is typicial of any one thing or not, ............never run across this type of failure

Replace all the capacitors, check all resistors,
and then see if it does it

:Hello, I have recapped most of the radio and plugged it in to make sure it works for the first time, and it will play for a while, then the volume will drop a lot. In order to get volume back, you must turn dial down to the low end of the freq down to about 900 khz, and you will hear a pop and volume is back, you can then turn dial back up to high end, and it will play for a while. At first, it would only play for less than a minute then volume would drop, so I lubed tuning condenser, dont know if that helped or not, but now it might play for at least 20 minutes or so. there are only a couple of bakelite caps I havnt done yet, and the multi caps are not done yet either, but I dont know if this is typicial of any one thing or not, ............never run across this type of failure

Also check for poor solder joints at tube sockets. Clean all tube socket contacts and tube pins. Also, you could have a tube goping bad. Try swapping out one tube at a time to see if you can pin-down a defective tube.

Chuck

Hello, I have seemed to narrow it down to the rf area. When I touch the grid cap of the rf 24 tube the volume comes back and might stay for a while if I let go, the same will happen if I touch the 2nd gang condenser non rotating part of the plates from the front of the radio. If I leave the antenna wire stuck in the plates or on the grid cap, the radio plays and doesnt seem to drop out............think we might have a bad antenna coil maybe?

::Hello, I have recapped most of the radio and plugged it in to make sure it works for the first time, and it will play for a while, then the volume will drop a lot. In order to get volume back, you must turn dial down to the low end of the freq down to about 900 khz, and you will hear a pop and volume is back, you can then turn dial back up to high end, and it will play for a while. At first, it would only play for less than a minute then volume would drop, so I lubed tuning condenser, dont know if that helped or not, but now it might play for at least 20 minutes or so. there are only a couple of bakelite caps I havnt done yet, and the multi caps are not done yet either, but I dont know if this is typicial of any one thing or not, ............never run across this type of failure
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:Also check for poor solder joints at tube sockets. Clean all tube socket contacts and tube pins. Also, you could have a tube goping bad. Try swapping out one tube at a time to see if you can pin-down a defective tube.
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:Chuck

:Hello, I have seemed to narrow it down to the rf area. When I touch the grid cap of the rf 24 tube the volume comes back and might stay for a while if I let go, the same will happen if I touch the 2nd gang condenser non rotating part of the plates from the front of the radio. If I leave the antenna wire stuck in the plates or on the grid cap, the radio plays and doesnt seem to drop out............think we might have a bad antenna coil maybe?

Sounds like it. Look carefullt at the coil lug connections for any green-ish corrosion. Could be an intermittant connection.

Chuck

Hello, I have found that the actual antenna coil primary is open, or at least seems to be. Not sure on the resistance, but I would think it should be less than 1000. My meter goes between open and meg ohms(autoranging itself). Is there a suitable replacement coil that can be placed inside the secondary coil or am I just screwed. Dont know if I killed it soldering with the chassis upside down. I dont know if a blob of solder burned it or not since there was a chunk sitting on the bottom of the metal can, at any rate, I need some kind of coil or way to put this coil back into service if thats possable

::Hello, I have seemed to narrow it down to the rf area. When I touch the grid cap of the rf 24 tube the volume comes back and might stay for a while if I let go, the same will happen if I touch the 2nd gang condenser non rotating part of the plates from the front of the radio. If I leave the antenna wire stuck in the plates or on the grid cap, the radio plays and doesnt seem to drop out............think we might have a bad antenna coil maybe?
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:Sounds like it. Look carefullt at the coil lug connections for any green-ish corrosion. Could be an intermittant connection.
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:Chuck