11-06-2021, 06:20 PM
Today I spent close to a couple of hours gutting and rebuilding the 8uF rectifier filter cap.
The stuff inside is poured over with some brittle hard type tar, mixed with paper.
I broke the corkscrew I use to gut these.
So I drilled, heated and chiseled until I had maybe less than 1/2" at the bottom at which point I deemed it harmless, and then put a Solen 600V 8.2uF cap inside, stabilized and insulated it with fish paper and epoxied. This has the same type depression groove at the bottom so I used the same type cut and the same technique to get the two halves back together.
Tomorrow I will rebuild the last one, it is a 2 section one, 8uF and 10uF. I will use 10uF and 33uF respectively as this one is not critical. The one I have to gut is a 3 section type, so it is just as well as I will have more space to put two pairs of wires instead of three.
Both caps are time-period appropriate and look right. The originals were with solder lugs instead of wires but then it is only so far I will go to make a cap look exactly as the old one did. They do not say Philco anyway.
The stuff inside is poured over with some brittle hard type tar, mixed with paper.
I broke the corkscrew I use to gut these.
So I drilled, heated and chiseled until I had maybe less than 1/2" at the bottom at which point I deemed it harmless, and then put a Solen 600V 8.2uF cap inside, stabilized and insulated it with fish paper and epoxied. This has the same type depression groove at the bottom so I used the same type cut and the same technique to get the two halves back together.
Tomorrow I will rebuild the last one, it is a 2 section one, 8uF and 10uF. I will use 10uF and 33uF respectively as this one is not critical. The one I have to gut is a 3 section type, so it is just as well as I will have more space to put two pairs of wires instead of three.
Both caps are time-period appropriate and look right. The originals were with solder lugs instead of wires but then it is only so far I will go to make a cap look exactly as the old one did. They do not say Philco anyway.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
