My reply pertained to the original post, not you. I never modded a rig for use as a cb but did mod a few when I was a MARS trainee and to open older rigs for 60m.
IGX: When I was in high school, I used to help out at K9BPV's television repair shop. He charged a fixed labor rate, plus parts, to repair radio receivers. Dave hired me to fix those receivers which were mostly of the "All American Five" AC/DC receivers. This was in the 1959 to 1962 time frame. I believe that he charged a flat $3.00 labor fee and gave me $2.00 and kept $1.00 as a profit plus what he made on the tubes and parts. Most of the repair involved replacing a tube with a burnt out heater (filament). Since the heaters were in series, when one burned out none of them would light. Most repairs were done in under 15-minutes and that resulted in a pay rate of $8.00 to $10.00 per hour which was definitely above average for anyone let alone a teenager! Every so often, someone would bring in a radio and say that he / she tried to get it working by tightening all of the "loose screws"! That was the clue that the radio was definitely going to need a full alignment! Glen, K9STH
Buwahahahahahaaa!! Even before I knew anything about radio that would have just never occurred to me. It wasn't the radio that had a screw loose!
