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Re: Jet 511 Table radio restoration

rayfenwick — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:30:53 GMT

Welcome to BeoWorld!

I heartily agree with everyone else - these vintage equipment restorations are absolutely fascinating.

Nothing so rare or difficult at the moment on my bench (ok, kitchen worktop..) Just 3-into-2 Beocenter 7700 shenanigans:

The plan is to make up the best one to keep, second best to sell, and third to sell as "saveable". Well, it stops me getting bored. :)

Re: Jet 511 Table radio restoration

Craig — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:56:27 GMT

Looking forward to seeing this project, the more pictures the better IMO.

Craig

Re: Jet 511 Table radio restoration

Dillen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:13:45 GMT

I agree, definitely one to watch.
The vintage products are very rarely brought up here, so this is
clearly a welcome change.

Martin

Re: Jet 511 Table radio restoration

Jandyt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:26:34 GMT

Hear, hear.
Welcome from me too, Scott
Looking forward to the photo's. Common practice for B&O is to include the schematics in a brown envelope inside.
Although I can't make much sense of them, it's always great to open the envelope thinking that it hasn't seen the light of day for donkey's ears!
Good luck with your project!

Andy T.

Re: Jet 511 Table radio restoration

Medogsfat — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:12:56 GMT

Hi Scott & welcome to Beoworld

These are the most fascinating (to me) threads that appear on Beoworld and you have my utmost respect for taking on such a massive task. A fabulous first post which will have myself and others rapt.

If there is anything you need - be it parts or advice just ask and myself and others on here will be more than willing to help wheverever we can. Good luck and please post as many photo's as you can - we like pictures here

Chris.

Jet 511 Table radio restoration

petraman7 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:22:48 GMT

I recently got a Museum piece in my shop here.

It's a JET 511 table radio monster. Beautiful condition except no operation.

The good thing was that the schematic was posted to the underside shield panel below the main chassis.

I've also crossed all the euro-tubes to USA equivalents (just in case)

One tube has shown bad and a couple others test low. The main reason for not turning on was the 2 panel/pilot lamps in front .

These are connected in series with the heater circuits for the tubes. Bad lamps=no heaters. Lamps are Philips 8005D , 18 volt 100mA

The other probelm was a burnt resistor for one of the high-volt lines on one of the tubes.

I'll update as I go along and make up a photo-blog soon.

Cheers from a newbie,

Scott