Lovely. One of the best vintage sets to have. Such a good set and sensitive. I like them, and its brother, the VHF54 with vhf and a magic eye in the grille
That's a radio to be proud of again.
Mike
Hi Rich,
That certainly looks the part now, excellent job 
Cheers
Marc.
Marc
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RSGB call sign 2E0VTN
I'm always pleased by the lovely warm sound of its predecessor, the AC11. Makes you think of sitting by a warm fire in the winter listening to the football results; and given the theme for Sports Report hasn't changed in years, it's instant nostalgia!
I have a DAC34. Someone gave it to me about 40 years ago. I never really liked the 1950s look. A bit like myself really as I have the same release date. It does have a great sound to it and back in the days when I had a useable workshop I listened to it regularly. Mine needs the cabinet revarnishing as well. How did you preserve the Bush logo? That is the main thing that has stopped me revarnishing mine. I found some printable logos but as my printer can't do gold I didn't carry on any further.
"The golden age is always yesterday", Asa Briggs.
How did you preserve the Bush logo? That is the main thing that has stopped me revarnishing mine. I found some printable logos but as my printer can't do gold I didn't carry on any further.
My brother used a scraper to remove the old finish. In his words....'luck and a steady hand'! 
Just in case the logo got damaged, he took several good photos of it so a reproduction could be printed if necessary. As it so happened all worked out well.
Despite earlier on in the thread stating that I wouldn't bother with alignment, I decided to warm up the Advance and give the set a quick check. I needn't have bothered really! The I.F's were spot-on, LW oscillator was only a gnats whatsit out and could probably have been ignored and MW osc was also as near as didn't matter. The only significant improvement was the low (500 meters) end of MW where the aerial peaking coil needed about half a turn. I haven't checked shortwaves yet as it's getting late so will give that a quick check another time.
I still think this is one of the easiest sets to work on and Bush even thoughtfully drilled holes in the bottom of the cabinet to facilitate alignment. The set is very lively on MW and LW (the hash mentioned yesterday is my son's TV) 
so I might fit an in-line mains filter to it (the TV). SW seems OK but there are dead spots. This may be normal now or it could be alignment so we'll see next session.
