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Variable capacitor cleaning
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Actually big tuning caps are the easiest to clean with just dishwashing liquid and hot water as long as you have a suitable container to place it in. Because the brush bristles easily go between the vanes and it does not take much to clean them.

It is the smaller caps, especially those that are not that small in size but have very densely placed vanes that present some challenge, as the brush has to go far but the space between the vanes is tight and so it does not reach to the opposite end, so it takes a few times re-positioning the cap.

Still it works fine.

Obviously US cleaner is great if one has it. I don't.

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.


Messages In This Thread
Variable capacitor cleaning - by Paperboy - 10-25-2016, 03:36 PM
RE: Variable capacitor cleaning - by morzh - 10-25-2016, 04:03 PM
RE: Variable capacitor cleaning - by Chris h - 10-26-2016, 08:00 AM
RE: Variable capacitor cleaning - by morzh - 10-26-2016, 08:49 AM
RE: Variable capacitor cleaning - by KCMike - 10-26-2016, 12:19 PM



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