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Some interesting things i found inside my 50A. - jake wells - 06-05-2019
It is most part there and has seen heavy use the bakelite blocks where bypassed with just caps hanging in mid air and modern carbon comp in places. I had to repair the volume control it was half apart and hanging but after cleaning and assembly it tests fine.
Some of the values where not correct i am guessing a WW2 repair? All the coils and transformer test good.
Here are some pics i even found a repairman's tag.
RE: Some interesting things i found inside my 50A. - morzh - 06-05-2019
Yes paralleling newer caps to backelite blocks as they failed was a popular albeit ill-conceived measure.
Yes this would restore capacitance, but wouldn't remedy the leakage.
RE: Some interesting things i found inside my 50A. - Brad Winder - 06-14-2019
Canuckistan built set?
RE: Some interesting things i found inside my 50A. - jake wells - 06-14-2019
Yes it is brad 25-40 cycles