Heathkit T3 Rebuild - Part 1

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) You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar ...and also on Patreon:   / atkelar   ...and you can also drop a virtual coin into the YouTube hat by using the "Super Thanks!" Thanks to everybody who signed up already!