Re: IML: 60 radio gremlins

Clay;

Pick up a bottle of rubbing alcohol at your local drug store and an eye dropper. Fill the eye dropper with the alcohol and bathe the volume control with the alcohol and work the control back and forth a dozen times and let it dry. You may have to remove the radio to get at the volume control pot, which usually has a hole in the metal case around where the connections come out. If this doesn't work check the antenna wire, if it isn't that then the radio probably has a failing capacitor someplace. In all of my years of experience with tube equipment maybe one failure in ten is actually caused by a tube, and of those it is usually in the oscillator not in the audio end. Conversion is a waste of money, your radio is workable you just need to find the fault.

Best Regards

Arran Foster

1954 Imperial Newport

1975 Chrysler Newport

----- Original Message -----

From: imperialman

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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 7:17 AM

Subject: IML: 60 radio gremlins

Greetings everyone.

My 60 Custom's otherwise great sounding radio has developed a problem.

Every so often the volume will start to fade on its own until I reach up and touch the on-off volume knob.

Then the volume will most always come back to normal .

Sometimes I have to do this three or four times before the volume will stay .

Could it be an antenna problem?

Its hard to listen to Minnesota Twins baseball in glorious AM with fluctuating volume!



                          Clay Smith
                         60 Custom (concert hall sound with front and rear speakers)
                          67 Crown Coupe( also has AM radio with front and rear speakers)