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Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration
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Ron Ramirez Wrote:No, I am not restuffing the caps...

Ron;
  Actually you can restuff those style of capacitor, SOMETIMES, like the Sangamo "Little Chiefs" or the bumblebee types, with a molded plastic shell. I'm not sure whether you can with those blue Cornell-Dubilier ones, but since they are replacements not original to the radio there isn't much point. The odd thing is that I have run across some of those plastic molded capacitors that still test good, so maybe the later ones used plastic film, or a combination of plastic film and paper, that holds up better then the pink and blue Sangamo ones. If anyone wants to find out how look up a You Tube channel by a guy named Dennis Carter, it's rather interesting, but it only makes sense to do with radios, and TVs, and in his case a Webcor wire recorder, that left the factory with such caps.
  One thing that I have been looking for are sources of smaller diameter cardboard tubing in order to make replica capacitor shells. So far the smallest that I have found are maybe 5/8'' inner diameter tubes from a Saran wrap or wap paper rolls. I have heard that one source of smaller tubes are those wire hangers that the dry cleaners use but I haven't found any of those yet. I was looking at tubing for fireworks but they seem to be thicker walled then capacitor shells.
Regards
Arran


Messages In This Thread
Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 11-27-2016, 01:21 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 11-27-2016, 02:24 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by sam - 11-27-2016, 05:56 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by sam - 11-27-2016, 06:12 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by Arran - 11-29-2016, 04:59 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by Arran - 12-01-2016, 11:33 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-04-2016, 09:12 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-04-2016, 09:35 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by GarySP - 12-12-2016, 09:55 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-12-2016, 10:51 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-13-2016, 10:18 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-14-2016, 07:57 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by TV MAN - 12-15-2016, 01:08 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-16-2016, 11:07 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-16-2016, 11:26 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by Chris h - 12-17-2016, 09:47 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-17-2016, 10:56 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by TV MAN - 12-17-2016, 12:36 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-17-2016, 01:29 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-17-2016, 01:30 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by morzh - 12-17-2016, 06:45 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by KCMike - 12-18-2016, 09:25 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by TV MAN - 12-20-2016, 10:23 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by bmheise - 09-24-2019, 12:30 AM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by harley92 - 01-30-2020, 05:27 PM
RE: Ron's Philco 37-640 Restoration - by oldcoot - 12-10-2021, 09:31 PM



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