Restoration Projects

Wonderful gift from a new friend… Like most people of my age group, my first introduction to the Amateur Radio hobby was in fact…

Yaesu FT-980 Restoration Project – Part 1 Serial Number: 3D 010382 Possibly Manufactured in April, 1983 which would make this a very early radio…

Larkspur D11 Station Antenna Tuner I have had this old unit for ages but thought that it was safe in the house somewhere –…

The Drake T-4X Transmitter Restoration and Repair Project The Drake T-4X is an HF amateur band transmitter covering 80 through 10 meters. Four additional crystal sockets…

The Drake R-4C kindly given to me by Douglas Dodd (GD3RFK) This is one of those great little projects that fills in the days…

KW Vanguard Face Plate Removal and Other Metalwork OK, this is where I kind of mess up a bit, but I will still show…

Removing the Meters, VFO Display and Lamp Holder from the KW Vanguard The next job on the easy scale of things is to remove…

Remove the Switch Fixings from the KW Vanguard Now that all the knobs have been removed I removed all of the nuts and washers…

KW Vanguard’s Control Knobs So that’s the right hand slide of the unit sorted, now lets look at the left hand side starting with…

Dismantling the front panel on the KW Vanguard The first job on the block is to start to clean all the knobs and switches…