Hacker Sov II in Ayrshire in need!

[bobdylansbarber]

Does anyone know of a business (or individual) in the Ayrshire area that might be able to repair a SOV II? Any steers gratefully received (unlike my radio which isnt receiving anything!)

Ian

[agardiner]

Welcome to the forum. There seems to be a lack of repair people in your area, and I get quite a bit from Scotland shipped to me. Your set can be safely shipped.

Very happy to repair it for you if you are prepared to send?

[murphyv310]

Hi.
I'll PM you shortly.

[murphyv310]

Originally Posted by agardiner

Welcome to the forum. There seems to be a lack of repair people in your area, and I get quite a bit from Scotland shipped to me. Your set can be safely shipped.

Very happy to repair it for you if you are prepared to send?

That's very odd.
I've been doing repairs for many years with vintage items as was Norman Raeburn, Bob Baird and at least three in Glasgow, Norman has given up and Bob Baird passed sadly but I'm still around and I believe one in Glasgow but not on this forum.
I used to be in the list of repairers, will need to check and see though.
I do tend to limit the amount of work though.
I'll leave it to the OP who he wants to repair the set.

[David Simpson]

I would fully recommend Trevor, I've kent him for a number of years - he's "The Man".
I'm clocking-on now (78 next week), and like Norman, not in the repair scene any more. However, should someone up my way have something interesting & rare, I'll maybe take the following action :-

a) Offer "here's the good news, here's the bad" advice regarding their item

b) Offer someone VR repair mentoring advice. Hopefully encouraging them to become "new blood" in the VR fraternity.

c) Pass them on to experts like Trevor

Regards, David

[agardiner]

Good to know Trevor. Will keep it in mind when I get queries.

Regards,

[bobdylansbarber]

Thanks for the offer Adrian, but I am all set with Trevor. I even got to meet him and see inside his shed full of wonders! Ian

[agardiner]

Lovely, that's good to hear.

[murphyv310]

Hi Chaps.
Well I have the radio here and its a chan of disasters. I very much feel for Ian having been sold a pup.
On first inspection while Ian was here I found two electrolytic caps hanging by loose wire on the audio board, also a suspicious lead from under the audio PCB to the speaker. Before I did anything I fitted new caps and removed the lead that went to the bias pot to the speaker. This restored proper operation of the audio amp but no AM or FM. I Noted a blown liquorice cap which had morphed into a 1.3K resistor so that was replaced but still hadn't noticed the state of the cores in the IF stages. All was revealed when I looked for AM oscillator output, nothing zilch! I then saw the core was way out of the can, it had been chewed and no slot was seen, i did manage to remove it and i fitted another that when screwed in restored MW oscillator, LW though nothing. At that point I looked at the IF's most were badly chewed on the FM section but worst to come on the AM IF amp with one former totally broken and others in a very bad state.
I don't have any of these parts to complete the repair but I also think its been subjected to excess voltage at some point, hence the dangling electrolytic caps and the blown cap on the IF board.

I've contacted Ian with the bad news and suggested he collects the radio as I feel it's BER.