One of my favorite hamfest did not disappoint me this year. I always find good bargains on tools and equipment at this hamfest. My first purchase was an MFJ-267 1KW Dummy Load/Wattmeter. The seller had all of his equipment priced at the exact same point – $68.00. That seemed a good enough price that I […]
Sometime this past year, I acquired a Jackson Harbor Press KeyallHV kit. This accessory allows one to key their vintage rig, be it an old tube rig, a hybrid or a more modern solid state one. It is basically a circuit that isolates the keying contacts from any high voltage circuitry in the rig via […]
Cabinet Repair Now the the IG-42 was in good electrical order, it was time to move on to the cabinet repair.
Line Cord and Chassis repair — To continue on with the restoration, I replaced the ceramic disk filter capacitors on the line cord input with safety capacitors. These are designed to fail to an open state, rather than a shorted state. We hope that they never fail, but if they do, it should leave the […]
As noted in my previous post, the 25 volt scale for the leakage test function of the Heathkit C3 Condenser Checker provided a voltage that was considerably higher than 25 volts. It was closer to 50 volts. This seems to be a design flaw, or a documentation flaw, as I don’t know which side of […]
