Antique radio re-cap

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BradJudy

Antique radio re-cap
« on: 18 Mar 2007, 02:07 am »
It's not that exciting and I don't have pictures, but I just did a re-cap on a family console radio circa 1939.  It worked before the recap, but had serious hum issues and the caps are almost 70 years old.  They were actually in pretty good shape visually - it's been stored in pretty dry conditions for much of its life.

Surgery went well and it works better than before. 

Unfortunately, the volume pot is very touchy, so I'll have to pick up another one to try.  Hopefully I can find a ~2MOhm audio taper switched pot locally.  I know tubesandmore.com has an appropriate 1MOhm one if I can't find anything local.