atkelar | Heathkit T3 Rebuild - Part 1 @atkelar | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 minutes ago.
During late summer of 2023, I found an auction for a Heathkit T3 Signal Tracer; These usually go for big bucks but the listed one was a bit... well... "used and untested" would be the best description, so I got it for a relative low amount. Let's find out what horrors it holds! I did not expect this to be a two-part project, but there were indeed quite a few things to take care of...


0:00 Intro / Overview / Outside Issues
1:55 Inside Issues
3:17 Tube Health Check / Speaker Issue
4:15 Front Panel Disassembly / Transformer
6:55 Chassis Disassembly / "Rubber" Grommets
8:53 Front Panel Cleanup
10:48 Case Painting
11:41 Hole Fixup / Wattmeter Socket / Panel Paint
13:57 Chassis Cleanup / Transformer Core
15:30 Unwinding / Rewinding
17:42 Transformer Wiring and Mounting / New Grommets
19:10 Potentiometer Cleanup: Gain
21:00 Potentiometer Cleanup: On/Off and Watts
23:42 Sliding Switches / Mode Switch
25:27 Part 2 Teaser / Credits / Outtake

Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)

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