Brad.
Thank you for the photo upload.
Robbert the shielding was crook wiping out the hexode front end I suppose there were other ways of curing the problem but you can't beat a good bit of alfoil and some copper wire . I have another valve coming from the HRSA valve bank. I did not have one, they are not very common, it was a bit of a mistake using it, I wanted to keep the original 1946 valve line up but should have changed it for something more common . It would be a hassle to change it now because the filiament pins are 1 and 8 not 2 and 7 which is more common. I guess there must still be some out there. I did use an 80 rectifier instead of the 5Y3 .
Well I got sick of looking at that crook dial. Fred suggested I turn the tuning gang upside down which I did , that improved the situation but it still looked crook so I pulled it out again and altered the mounting I am now happy with the dial . I suspect the dial alignment may have always been out.So the photo's are all correct apart from the finished product photo . I now declare the dial fixed, I just could not live with it. Regards Jim

Wires broken & hanging out of a transformer are not necessarily a major issue if it works , some have wires connected stupidly and some had the lowest grade of rubber insulated wire the world has ever seen. On several occasions I have ended up taking the bells off.

The stupid ones often have a metal strip wound in. That can be "pulled" or it comes loose snapping wires internally. If its like that & hasn't broken preventative action is needed. Shrink tube & sleeving tube has been invented. With some Astor ones it was carefully cut the wire; splice on a bit of new the correct length and cover the wire joint. On one bad one I added a tag strip next to It and wired to that, taking the stress off of its wires.

Hi Marc.
It is the actual enamelled copper transformer winding it has lots of broken windings festooning out. It is a Phillips Bakelite radio I don't know the model. To save Brad from another photo upload tomorrow I will send you a picture of it you would more than likely know what the model number was . If I can get a model number I will then look for a circuit. I have a few transformers I should be able to find something suitable.
Regards Jim

Jimb: I have no problem with using aluminium, I've had to do it myself on occasion where the base connection had been lost, and the valve turns into an uncontrolled oscillator.

Just getting back on the LG topic.

JimB could never had got the dual wave switch to work.
Apart from open circuit coil leads the tuning range (once I had four viable ends!) of the "BC" coil was actually LF under 500KC.when connected to a standard gang.
The Oscillator coil was also pitched down under 1MHz and internally wired with a grounded tickler coil end.
Not to a standard RCS circuit to suit a LG radio. More like a seperate oscillator frequency changer, or, the monkeys have been in.

I have popped it into the junk coil box forattention "lateron".
The coils would need re-winding and the whole thing re-furbishing to be useful.

Fred.

Hi Fred.
Thank you once again for looking at that for me I was feeling a bit of a dummy not being able to get it to work.
I am pretty happy with this little general now . It is working quite well and has already chalked up many hours of usage. It now looks 100 % better since I sorted the dial out. The brown vynal case has a few imperfections, rough spots, but it is in keeping with a 74 year old radio that has resided in a garage attic covered with possum poo and urine. As the initial pictures indicate it was just a pile of scrap. It now has a new lease of life.
Kind Regards. Jim.

I have mentioned recently re on a comment made about Philips TV transformers, that I have had the same experience with wire coming out of the side. The idea if you get one is not to touch it with fingers and if you can tease it back in, fine. Unfortunately, if it gets snagged, wire breaks & its stuffed.

Marc

Marc.
This is in the stuffed category another one of the Tony H's collection . I have concentrated on the more repairable ones first.
I have not even removed this from its case yet. It is so disgusting I will be wearing rubber gloves.
Regards Jim

Hi Jimb, I had a final look at the dual wave switch, yes I know, but I hate to be baffled by things!

Finally got the answer.
Some loon had connected the tickler coil of the BC osc to ground internally as well.

Once that was cleared the BC tuning coil measured 27 ohm and 1.6 mH
The osc coil measured 4ohm and 0.12 mH.

When checked for resonance with a 17 to 421 pf gang the tuning range was 172 to 312 Kc.
The osc coil measured 947 to 1279 Kc.

Thus to very approximate figures we have a coil that matches the AM LF band 170 - 300 KC
and a IF frequency somewhere near 700 to 900KC.

Inductances were measured in situ and errors will occur because of crude test conditions.
However its how I check BC coils and gives "in the ball park" figures.

So we have a RCS radio model DW29 coil unit but wound to suit the LF band.
Maybe to match to 900/1000 Kc IF coils?

No wonder you could not get it to talk!

Anybody else come across a version of the DW129 like this?

Fred.

Hi Fred that is amazing how you found all that out . I hope you did not spend too much time on it however I know what you mean. It can be very hard to put things down and you need to get to the bottom of it.
Tony's Dad who Tony inherited the house from was into communication receivers maybe it was part of a project for the future to transform that Little general into something else. Who knows.
Kind regards Jim.

Anybody know what sort of communications equipment would use the LF AM band?

Fred.

Most of the world uses it for aircraft beacons, and automated aircraft weather warnings.

In England, they have domestic broadcasting on the band, so European radios often have a long-wave position.