All,

I just finishing re-capping a Hallicrafters SX-42 I bought recently.
Thanks Phil for an excelent web site (http://antiqueradio.org/) and
big help. This is my first restoration of such complex communications
receiver. I did restore a Fisher KX-200 and X-202-B amps, a Sansui
320 receiver and a few smaller radios. The rig was in excelent
condition and after re-capping and cleaning up the contacts the AM and
shortwave bands worked great...

.... but the FM is completely silent. When I move the band switch to
the upper 2 bands I can hear static in the AM reception and silence
when I switch to FM. Does this preclude any problem with the
bandswitch? I inspected the bandswitch and the wafers look very clean
and don't show any signs of carbonization.

I cleaned and inspected the reception switch as well and it seems OK.
All tubes check fine and voltages are as they should be.

I'll continue investigating the problem but any suggestions are
greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
--
Elias