That's funny, so the story is I was up late last night aligning this receiver and since the pointer needle was way off scale I needed something to center to... so I carefully shimmied it over to rest right on the 700 mark while listening to CJLI, and then made sure it also lined up to the 1000 mark listening to KOMO. Then I gave the knob a flick the other way and heard CFCW, still IDing as 790, at 840 on the dial and I was like what the heck did it slide off AGAIN?
These old "Hi-Fi" receivers of the 70s/80s have great tuners. Plus, very easily serviceable. I love how they had text labels for pots and inductors, and the traces on the other side were silkscreened on the top side as well. Meanwhile, I also have one of those brand new, 7.1 DTS, HDMI everything receivers and the AM tuner in that thing is the worst, if you can pick out any signal from the tons of internal noise it generates. I'm disappointed to see the AM tuner is basically an after thought these days. Onkyo actually was the hold out for AM Stereo, offering that feature in their products well into the 2000s. Sadly, most of them never ever had a chance to receive anything that would trip the light.
Speaking of lights, I guess I'm off to try to find a 6.3 volt dial light and some super glue to put that knob cover back on.