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AW23 Waverly Grande put back together today

Someone mentioned they liked the Waverly Grande and it got me motivated to put mine back together as a player today. I spent about 4 hours testing the chassis and putting all the guts back inside.

I bought the cabinet empty about 6 years ago and someone had done a pretty good restoration of the finish. I had to remove the bottom plate on the main chassis to let the shafts line up with the openings FSR.

The speaker has been reconed and the radio had a recap in the past. Its a hot player now and going to finally get some weekly use after sitting here in the shadows for about 6 years as a lonely orphan.

The guts on the variac:

The cabinet, a Waverly Grande:

All put together and playing like a champ:

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Permalink Reply by David C. Poland on October 28, 2012 at 9:14pm

Hi Bruce.

Nice looking Waverly, both the cabinet and chrome chassis.

I play a walkman CD player regularly on my early AW-23 using the earphone out to phono inputs. Plenty of volume available.

-Dave

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Day on October 30, 2012 at 2:31pm

This looks great. I have the same radio in the regular Waverly cabinet. I do have a question about the dial indicator. I have posted photos of the dial on the Scott website.

On mine the indicator bar shows up above the center of the dial. Tha actual calibration of the dial has the stations coming in at about the center of the dial below the indicator bar. At some point I need to pull the chassis and do an IF alignment check and reset the dial scale to where it was originally. There should be marks on the tuning shaft from the original position of the set screws. I also have the balanced antenna coupler, but am using a single long wire draped around the dining room. I have a long wire antenna to put on the roof with a coax feed into the radio.