12-24-2011, 12:03 AM
Oh, ho ho ho! Sometimes the best, well, maybe the most poignant lessone are learned that way!
I learned that Philco 18B tombstones are top heavy and prone to tipping over when you only have the speaker installed. I learned this when my freshly restored cabinet did a nose dive and landed on sharp, metal objects on my work table.
I also learned to NEVER assume that just because the electrolytics are missing on the surface of the chassis of the radio that you just got in and you can see newer caps under the chassis means that they were replaced correctly. I smoked the transformer of my RCA 263 this way, and spent awhile looking for a suitable replacement as a result.
And no, the caps were most definitely not done right. Some sub-moron had replaced both electrolytics with ONE that was equal to the combined value of the originals.
I learned that Philco 18B tombstones are top heavy and prone to tipping over when you only have the speaker installed. I learned this when my freshly restored cabinet did a nose dive and landed on sharp, metal objects on my work table.
I also learned to NEVER assume that just because the electrolytics are missing on the surface of the chassis of the radio that you just got in and you can see newer caps under the chassis means that they were replaced correctly. I smoked the transformer of my RCA 263 this way, and spent awhile looking for a suitable replacement as a result.
And no, the caps were most definitely not done right. Some sub-moron had replaced both electrolytics with ONE that was equal to the combined value of the originals.
