Bruce’s Bench 2017
Bruce’s Bench 2017 Live To Air – National NC-101X Live To Air – National NC-101X finally back together tonight newly installed coil rack, with the bronze bushings and fabricated band indicator. Slides like it’s on glass, super smooth and low effort. Listening to the...
The Restoration Process – Gross CB-25 – Winter 2008/2009
Such a rig really deserved to be placed in, and kept in first class condition, so I began to consider my restoration strategy. Over the years the original black wrinkle finish had been redone, but the lower parts of the chassis, and undersides were showing rust. The...
1934 Gross CB-25 – About This Transmitter
Background The time was the 1930s, and America, like much of the world, was mired in the midst of the Great Depression. Jobs were gone, bread lines were common, and times were admittedly hard. Yet, to borrow a phrase from Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it...
Live To Air – National NC-101X
Live To Air - National NC-101X finally back together tonight newly installed coil rack, with the bronze bushings and fabricated band indicator. Slides like it’s on glass, super smooth and low effort. Listening to the melodious tones of the old Gray Hair Net, using...
Like Butter – Installing And Operating the National Coil Rack
National NC-101X. Testing the newly installed coil rack, with the bronze bushings and fabricated band indicator. Slides like it’s on glass, super smooth and low effort. Very pleased.
Replacing Coil Housing Bushings – National NC-101X
Here’s the solution to the sliding coil deteriorated bushing problem on the National NC-101X shortwave receiver. Unlike that other National products with “plug in” coils, like the HRO, the early NC-100 series use a “catacomb” coil assembly that slides inside the...
Better, Stronger, Faster – Or Rebuilding the National Sliding Coil Housing
National NC-101X Project - Update Fabricating a new band indicator became a necessity since spare parts for a 80 year old radio are just not something you can find at your local Radio Shack, if you can even find a Radio Shack. So the old sheet metal, aluminum...
National NC-101X – Replacing the Catacomb Coil Bushings
While this is for the 101X, most it likely applies and hold true for any of the National moving coil products. What had occurred to this unit, is that the plastic bushings had been brittle, loose and broken over the last 80 years, the coil became unusually binding...
A Special Visitor In The Ham Shack Today
No, that's not Clarlize Theron's young sister, but close. 😉 Sure makes that old transmitter look pretty!