by GordoGibbo » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:27 am
Greetings, RadioWesters....
So the latest news in my quest to restore my McCurdy SS4370 eight-channel, is that a well-known and respected engineer based in Toronto had "all the parts...in fact, an entire board" up until about a year ago, but did a housecleaning. Sigh.....my timing is, again, impeccable. He does have a few switches and things in his possession that he is graciously sending my way. But as far as a full restoration, that may have to rattle around in the bucket of my bucket list for awhile. I've been toying, however, with the thought of running my audio through another mixer but somehow connecting the mixer to the McCurdy VU meters and lighting them up, making it appear, at least, that it's alive. I won't get the sweet sound, though, that would come with all those nice transformers and new caps. But lacking the know-how, I may have to shelve a full restore for awhile. It's not like I can work away at recapping the thing myself. I'll screw it up. Someday, one day, someone will come along with a soldering gun and some time on his hands, a willing and knowledgiable associate, but so far I have yet to find anyone who thinks it's worth the effort and expense. I gather buying caps, and especially good ones,
is insanely expensive. One thing I could do, I suppose, it identify only those channels I would be using and recap just those modules, and everything in the signal path for those. And of course, the power supplies....if, and when I find them. So far, no luck.
I'll keep looking....
Gord