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Love the Stuffing - hate the turkey
#1

https://www.russoldradios.com/blog

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#2

http://www.philcoradio.com/phorum/showth...?tid=19582


The orange Zenith caps you see there on the left (bright orange) are the same type caps as those green ones - thin paper shell and the stamped (with a raised line diametrically crossing the flat wax plug) wax seals.

I successfully restuffed them. But they are a pain. The green one I did ruin (in the same 6G001 you have described) but I found another old similar looking cap and subbed it in.

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.
#3

Yep.

Typos (insidious auto corrected) fixed.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#4

Hats off to you, Sir, I have a great respect for this attention to detail!

I must admit that for my latest project (zenith console) I have not restuffed. The old caps will be kept, though, along with the chassis, so it is always an option, and the record of component style is maintained.

Interesting that you found other manufacturers caps alongside the Zenith branded components. I found the same in the 1947/48 12H090, with Zenith (the majority), Sprague and Aerovox represented. There were no signs of repair or rework, so it seems this was factory practice as you concluded.

I don't hold with furniture that talks.
#5

Thanks.

I had the time to give this a try. It is really pretty easy.

Yes, keep those caps. Finding ones that have been lost can be a real problem.

I have not worked on many 1946 - 1955 radios compared to the earlier and later ones.

"I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine"
http://www.russoldradios.com/
#6

In Zenith so far I only found non-Z caps in Later Transoceanics (the Black Beauties) and in the companion radios (6G001).
Original T/O 7G605 had all Zenith caps.
But there are those thin shell ones, the first one was in the 7G605, and then I met them in all the rest of them so far (I am yet to check out the 600 chassis).

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.




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