Dave Pike's Comments

Dave. Thanks for accepting my request. May I ask what the serial number is.  I got

my allwave 23 in 2011 from a local collector in the suburbs. From the condition of the chassis and cabinet, I don’t think it got too far from Chicago. Mine is an early 5 knob version K480. I had to have a new power transformer made by Heyboer transformer in Grand Haven. I did a recap on the tuner chassis while waiting for the transformer. About 6 years ago I bought a second Allwave 23 chassis off of ebay. This one had been ‘modified’ by a previous owner and is in rough shape with pitted chrome. It sat under my work bench til this year when I finally started a complete rebuild and cleaned 80 years of dirt. The chrome cleaned up pretty well. What interested me about yours is that it is a7 knob with single antenna post while my k480 is 5 knob single antenna post, My j497 is a 5 knob with 2 antenna posts.I still have work to do on it and build a power supply for it.  Once I have j497 done then I will start on k480. It works, but needs an alignment to get it working properly.  There is a photo of mine on line and in the photo section on this list. Check out facebook and look for me. Thom.