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RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET

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In Reply to: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET posted by karlyn on March 2, 2009 at 09:40:19:

The older US made Sherwoods are awesome IMO. I have a S-8500 that my Mom bought new in 1970.

You will want to recap your S-8800 if you plan to use it long term. My S-8500 has lots of the older plastic molded caps in it and those are trouble prone. The tuner in my S-8500 is out of alignent too. I had issues with the center tune being off. I was able to tweek it back by doing the old, metal jewlers screw driver in the coil trick. Once I found the coil that tied to the meter, I tweeked it back. One of these days, I will get a signal generator and properly realign it. :-) For the most part, the tuner works well, but I seldom listen to FM in the house anyway.

Mike

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Topic - My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - karlyn 09:40:19 03/2/09 ( 9)

RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - ESDI-80 03/2/09 16:17:01 03/2/09 ( 0)
Use D5 on the switches and faderlube on the pots. nt - satellite65 10:42:31 03/2/09 ( 1)
- RE: Use D5 on the switches and faderlube on the pots. nt - karlyn 11:52:00 03/2/09 ( 0)
RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - Brian Levy 10:12:09 03/2/09 ( 5)
- RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - Cliffhiker 12:52:23 03/5/09 ( 0)
- RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - karlyn 11:50:51 03/2/09 ( 3)
  - RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - Brian Levy 06:53:03 03/3/09 ( 0)
  - RE: My inherited Sherwood S-8800 FET - Brian Levy 04:34:52 03/3/09 ( 1)
    - thanks for the recommendation... - karlyn 19:01:25 03/3/09 ( 0)