10-13-2014, 09:41 PM
Ron;
I have a trick I came up with for restuffing tubular paper caps, I like to hot glue a strip of corrugated cardboard around the outside of the new poly film cap and wedge it in place inside the old cardboard tube, it centers the leads and cuts down on how much hot glue you need to fill the ends. As for finding another brand of capacitor inside a Philco unit, I found that inside the large bypass cap in my Canadian model 78 (46-1201) set, the one with the RF choke mounted on the outside, it too was a Cornell Dubilier brand capacitor, which shows that Philco chose wisely in terms of outside suppliers, Rogers also liked to use Cornell Dubilier brand caps, which may explain why many still have most if not all of the same caps they left the factory with. Another good make of the time was those Solar Sealedtites, with Aerovox somewhere between, but regardless of who made them I would not trust a 60+ year old paper capacitor.
Regards
Arran
I have a trick I came up with for restuffing tubular paper caps, I like to hot glue a strip of corrugated cardboard around the outside of the new poly film cap and wedge it in place inside the old cardboard tube, it centers the leads and cuts down on how much hot glue you need to fill the ends. As for finding another brand of capacitor inside a Philco unit, I found that inside the large bypass cap in my Canadian model 78 (46-1201) set, the one with the RF choke mounted on the outside, it too was a Cornell Dubilier brand capacitor, which shows that Philco chose wisely in terms of outside suppliers, Rogers also liked to use Cornell Dubilier brand caps, which may explain why many still have most if not all of the same caps they left the factory with. Another good make of the time was those Solar Sealedtites, with Aerovox somewhere between, but regardless of who made them I would not trust a 60+ year old paper capacitor.
Regards
Arran
