09-07-2017, 12:17 AM
Mike;
I ran into that in a post war Philco I bought off of another collector at his garage sale. One of the mica caps must have been bad, so he replaced it, was originally a 100 mmf/pf cap and he put a .01 in it's place. He also hog tied a 50 year old axial lead 450 volt cap to the back of the speaker's rear bracket because he didn't have room for it under the chassis, thankfully he did not recap the rest of the set. The odd part was that he used to be a com tech in the air force, so he must have done these things, the set didn't work, so he gave up on it. So as you say, dealing with other people's problems, I didn't mind so much though since I got it pretty cheap.
Regards
Arran
I ran into that in a post war Philco I bought off of another collector at his garage sale. One of the mica caps must have been bad, so he replaced it, was originally a 100 mmf/pf cap and he put a .01 in it's place. He also hog tied a 50 year old axial lead 450 volt cap to the back of the speaker's rear bracket because he didn't have room for it under the chassis, thankfully he did not recap the rest of the set. The odd part was that he used to be a com tech in the air force, so he must have done these things, the set didn't work, so he gave up on it. So as you say, dealing with other people's problems, I didn't mind so much though since I got it pretty cheap.
Regards
Arran
