Stewart Warner

Stewart-Warner R-169-A

This Stewart Warner is in for restoration. Some repairs have been done but not a full chassis restoration. This radio will receive all new capacitors, resistors and have the power cord re attached. And that "Capacitor to Nowhere" (Pittsburgher's will remember the Bridge to Nowhere from the '70s) will be properly connected in accordance with the schematic. The 6K6 audio output tube reads as bad on the tube tester. This necessarily will not keep the radio from producing output but it will be greatly compromised.

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The cabinet is in good shape.	The lettering is silk screen printed on glass. The black backing is felt.	The lettering is smeared. It did not bleed or wash off. This looks to be original from the factory.	Capacitor to Nowhere. UPDATE - This is the high frequency suppression cap that should be connected to the plate of the audio output tube. This may explain the bad reading on the tube tester for the original tube.
These look like new coils. They are so clean.	These poorly soldered connections on the new power cord will be corrected.	Open Bias resistor.	This fuse socket has been damage.
The fuse was soldered into the socked. A new fuse holder has been added along with a new line cord, stand off and bypass cap.	This is the new bypass capacitor under the stand off. The original is in the foreground mounted on the diagonal.	The new white fuse holder is seen on the left.	Original Dial Scale.

Cabinet Restoration.

The original finish was chipped off in some areas. A fingernail could flake off the finish by simply scraping your finger across the surface. This is not normal. This is the stripped cabinet with, some imperfections filled in with wood filler. The wood filler has not been sanded in these pictures. Part of the lower front right base was split. It has been glued and clamped tight and filled with wood filler. The base repair will be painted black and will not be seen.

Lacquer is still drying.

These pictures were taken an our after the last coat was sprayed.	The curved edges will be pained with gloss black.
		12 coats	The borders will be pained after the lacquer has time to harden.	It is winter cold and wet, so this cabinet is comfortably drying in the third bed room.

This radio is ready to be shipped.

The chassis received one last electronic alignment after many hours of burn-in.	The knobs were cleaned and sprayed with lacquer.	New felt was placed on the control shafts	New felt feet replaced the worn felt feet being held in place with bent over brads. I'm sure that put a few scratches in a table top.
New speaker grill.	The old grill was brittle cracking and glued to the underside of the cabinet. It would have not survived cabinet refinishing.	Then end.

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