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Yikes. This is the amount of burned out crap that came out of that radio.

I have been receiving steady progress reports regarding the restoration of this radio. Things are looking good. As with anything over 75 years old there was a lot of undiscovered hanky panky going on inside. All of those issues are being addressed with everything being returned to factory specificat...

It's time to start decorating!

After examining this rig carefully I reached the conclusion that many of the issues I had discovered at hand were beyond my limited abilities. It is pretty clear to even me that over the years there were several crude attempts made at getting it working again all of which continued to take things in...

It does not make a lot of sense to me even with my limitations. Without an in line dropping resistor the voltages would be running jacked up inside all over. Such was never the intended design. Good used or new old stock 5Y3 rectifier tubes can still be had on eBay, it's not like they are impossible...

This SX- 43 is a work in progress. Produced in 1947. DSCN1481.JPG What would make this unit desirable is it was one of the very first receivers to offer FM reception from 85 to 110 Mhz. In those days the standard 88 to 108 band spread had not even been officially set in place. Someone fooled around ...

I added an S-53A to the fleet.
It's a great little radio

My Son came home with this yesterday after a four hour drive down to NY. We don't know much about it other than it was supposedly a backup unit for the Germantown, NY telephone company. DSCN1219.JPG DSCN1222.JPG DSCN1221.JPG DSCN1223.JPG It turns over well and shows compression. Sadly the large bras...

Hi Joe, hey thank you for asking. We are towing the line here all right with some damage to the driveway but it's still very passable. Plenty of folks all around us have had their lives smashed and I'm doing my bit by not turning into a galking bystander. Water has been running down our hill for a w...

Six inches of rain in 24 hours with another three just a few days before is hardly normal. We were just lucky, that's all, surrounding towns became islands. I have seen the Connecticut river this high only a couple of times before. DSCN1113.JPG DSCN1114.JPG It's rather rare to see the flood gates op...

Back in the end of May we had a hard frost that wiped out any chance of an apple crop along with who knows what else this year. That was followed by four weeks of no rain. Then we wound up with three weeks of bad air due to the Canadian wild fires. Then nearly one week of excessive heat in the 90+ d...

I see no point in conducting experiments using a perfectly good deck. They don't make these things any more. I did however place a hydraulic jack along with some sturdy wooden blocks directly inside of the discharge chute to maximize the opening. DSCN0997.JPG Regarding tools and the usage of tools a...

I need to get myself over to Tractor Supply and pick up 3 four foot  strips of 1/8" x 1 1/2" C.R.S. This project is not at the top of my list, the 38" refurbished deck with those shortened up 42" blades on the 128 is doing a great job. And all the bending sizes that I need will come directly from of...

Thank you Chuck, I'll keep that under consideration. I think I've got all I need for now. And I'm leaning toward making the baffle from three sections at this point. My first step was to get the shell media blasted. Coal slag was used. DSCN0987.JPG I'm pleased with the outcome. One bag was used. It ...

Earlier this week I got the call that the marker had been set.
So today the Wife and I made the two mile drive to go have a look see for ourselves.
It's mid photo about a third of the way up from the bottom.
And that's that.
Or did I say that already?

I ground enough of this rusty scale out of this deck to get sick and tired of it. Twice. I know a guy. In process of making plans to send it off for sand blast. DSCN0964.JPG The old baffle material measured around .083 thick. 14 gauge. Have not ruled out going up to 12 gauge. I am going to keep the ...

Yes, a carbide blade chop saw would have made fast work of that, alas I no longer have free reign amongst a 300 person machine shop so improvision becomes the mother of invention. The disc grinder did just fine. The thing there I think was to be sure that the center hole was in fact on center. I too...

Does anyone reproduce the deck baffle for the 42' and 38" decks?
Cub parts lists them as N.L.A.
Mine don't look too good

Just for giggles. Here are the small blades from the 42" deck
I sharpened them 10 years ago. Or was it 20?
Here are the small blades from the 38" deck. Check out the fracturing.

Here's the 38" deck with the trimmed down 42" blades on it. I'll test it out this Afternoon. Anything will beat the rounded off, fragmenting things that were on there, at the time it was all I had. DSCN0953.JPG Even with a very good disc grinder that was very labor intensive. I don't know if I'd wan...

I'm following Joe's advise and are transfering the cast spindle assemblies over to the 42" deck shell in far better condition. They are very smooth and tight even after twenty years since rebuild. Grease them often and they last a real long time. DSCN0951.JPG I had looked into buying parts to build ...

Not pretty but I was not after pretty. DSCN0908.JPG The thing fit like a glove and it runs very smooth and quiet. I did have to adjust the front end down about 3/8". DSCN0909.JPG I could tell right away that this smaller deck will be more ideally suited for my lawn with all its turns and slopes. DSC...

So they all do interchange, that's a huge plus! I kinda had that bolt pattern logged away in my memory bank but still was not sure. This is my first go around with the water pump style spindles and no sir I am not all that impressed with it's design. It is obviously a cost cutting measure that was p...

Thank you Joe. My Wife is back home and in recovery following surgery and doing very nicely however she still need 24 hour monitoring. Sorry that I missed you guys, but first things first. There have got to be enough parts here to make one good center spindle for the 38. Ugh. DSCN0904.JPG While one ...

Well NO, not really.
Although never underestimate the ability of anyone to screw something up when your not around.
I took care of this so that my kids don't have to.
Moving forward, one more thing off the bucket list
And that's that.

The belt tension pulley was a fast fix but the center spindle is another matter. There is some damage to the pulley, and a lot to the spindle. I'm getting .754 on the pulley and .740 on the spindle. So it was loose for a while. DSCN0902.JPG After pricing that spindle on line I'll be borrowing a good...

Yesterday my Son came home with a 38" deck and he handed it off to me. DSCN0894.JPG Now, I have wanted to try one of these on my lawn for some years now. Most all of my lawn is steeply sloped and pretty uneven too and I have speculated for a long time that a smaller deck would cut back on scalping v...

Hi Chuck, there are two basic styles of the non braking clutch that I know of. The single spring style DSCN0898.JPG And the double spring style DSCN0386.JPG Neither should slip under load, if it does then it's likely time for a rebuild. You will need the correct setting tool to assemble the clutch p...

The push toward electrification is running rampant in my state and there are many of us that don't like it at all. For starters the vast majority of our electric service is imported. No one seems to make mention of that. Second, large rural sections of the grid lack the necessary improvements to sup...

There was a time when purchases such as yours were quite common, these days not so much any more. You did good! More than enough parts to round out one really nicely opted 125 for sure. I envision a sickle bar hydro lifted unit there and would go with the wide rear tires. While the seat on the one i...