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In Reply to: RE: Fisher 500 posted by Steve O on October 11, 2015 at 13:43:21
This seller is not knowledgeable.
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"Powers up" just means that. Does not mean working great. Hook up a
speaker and a wire antenna and play with it for 10 min. Can you go in
and turn the tuner by hand?. Probably broke or loose dial string there
or even a loose knob. Take a flashlight with you and inspect the guts.
Any unit that old will need to be addressed by a tech to replace aging electrolyic caps and any paper caps, using a unit of that vintage in an unrestored state is extremely risky, even if it seems to be working fine. many capacitors just dont last 50 years. Just normal maintenence for this old stuff. For that price, you can afford to do some work on it. Far cheaper to get it serviced BEFORE you fry the transformers or output tubes from failing caps.
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