unitron wrote:

If that thing's old enough to have a dial cord then you can usually
tune in a a station, secure the knob to keep it from turning, and move
the dial indicator along the cord until it's at the spot on the dial
corresponding to that station's frequency. If the other stations show
up at the right place on the dial you're home free. It's only when
reception band is "wider" or "narrower" than the width of the dial
that alignment is usually called for and if it's not too far off it's
probably best to leave well enough alone (even though leaving well
enough alone is not a concept with which I've had a lot of practical
experience :-).

Well as I said, blowing out the tuning capacitor cleaned everything
up almost miraculously. It is now a rock solid, steady, correctly-reading
(at any frequency across the dial) GORGEOUS sounding tuner. No adjustment
or alignment or even cleaning (the inside of the chassis was almost
pristine) needed at all. Dang, eh? :-)

Colin