Panasonic national RE-784 radio restoration

This one was bought along with the two others from a local artist (hi Arnie!) for about $75 for all three. It has a pretty much standard AA5 schematic. Was re-capped and aligned with a digital scope and signal generator.

Was listed on the market for $120 and sold for $100 to a girl who wanted to listen to something great looking and sounding, which this radio exactly is.

The alignment was done with an arbitrary wave form generator.  A sweep was driven by internal source. I was trying different techniques as the generator I have can't trigger the scope. Ended up by just setting a symmetric sweep around IF of 10.7MHz. Sweep time was set to 2 seconds, the scope was triggered from the second channel with just a 1Hz ramp. Had a classical "S" curve and bell curve from the fifth attempt lol. The alignment really improved the balance of sensitivity vs selectivity. In a common words you can still receive a decent number of stations but each one has a good sound quality. Not bad for a radio made in 1950s.