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Once I tore into this thing, I discovered that it was actually made in April, '65.
I recapped the chassis, with one cap testing open and the rest testing anywhere between two to five times their stated value. After replacing the caps and cleaning the tuner/controls, the thing came to life with decent sound; but, I'm still not happy with the FM performance. It does fairly well on the stronger local stations; but, I still have to turn the volume up higher to get the same amount of volume as I get on AM. The weaker stations around here are faint to non-existent. I adjusted the RF trimmers on the tuning cap and got it slightly better; but, it's still not where I think it should be (based on other Magnavox models that I've had).
I checked some things and found the germanium FM RF amp and converter transistors to be suspect. Both of them check as expected in the forward direction; but, in reverse, I'm reading about 1.8 V on the meter when I normally should not be getting anything (this is with the transistors out of circuit). Anyway, NTE126 is listed as a sub for both transistors and I'm going to try replacing them.
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