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Fisher 500c rebuild
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I have been waiting to tackle this project. Now that you are done with your Fisher project Ron, I am going to start mine. The story of this is basically it is an Ebay find that I purchased to replace another 500c that I had since my college days at ITT in Indy. My original basically worked fine - until it got attacked by mice right under my nose! It was during a lenthley remodel of the house. It got moved out, and the mice moved in. My original intention was to take the 2 and make one. Well, I couldn't bring myself to knock my original in the head, so I am going to restore the one I purchased, then later I am going to attempt to restore my original. The 2 major problems are 1. The burned up power transformer, and 2. the shipping damage. I purchased it knowing the power trans was bad and almost all the tubes and knobs pilfered. Aside from that, she looked clean in in very good condition. 

I purchased a service manual and have been scrounging tubes. I do have a replacement power transformer (thanks for the lead Ron!) which ohms out good. I did an initial check on the output transformers, which both test ok. I am planning to order electrolytics  through Hayseed. I want to order high quality paper cap replacements. Any suggestions? Orange drops? I am assuming to replace all the small e-caps and those clear looking paper caps? How about the caps that look like an Orange drop except they are brown? Any others or anything else I should be aware from before ordering any parts?
   
   
   
   

If I could find the place called "Somewhere", I could find "Anything" Icon_confused

Tim

Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me , believes not in me but in him who sent me" John 12:44


Messages In This Thread
Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 01-29-2018, 05:35 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 01-29-2018, 07:53 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 01-30-2018, 03:41 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 01-30-2018, 07:05 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-01-2018, 03:56 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-01-2018, 04:27 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-01-2018, 05:28 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-01-2018, 07:15 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-02-2018, 09:08 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-02-2018, 11:12 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 02-03-2018, 05:15 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-03-2018, 10:04 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-03-2018, 11:28 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-03-2018, 08:01 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-03-2018, 08:14 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 02-05-2018, 04:06 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-05-2018, 11:29 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-07-2018, 12:53 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-07-2018, 01:46 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 02-09-2018, 04:09 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-09-2018, 07:22 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-10-2018, 01:34 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-10-2018, 07:30 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 02-11-2018, 03:29 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Phlogiston - 02-11-2018, 01:20 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Phlogiston - 02-11-2018, 01:39 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Arran - 02-12-2018, 03:04 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 02-12-2018, 07:28 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 02-15-2018, 02:18 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 03-01-2018, 11:35 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 03-02-2018, 07:20 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by morzh - 03-02-2018, 10:53 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Phlogiston - 03-02-2018, 01:06 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 03-02-2018, 04:01 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 03-10-2018, 11:13 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 03-11-2018, 12:36 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 03-21-2018, 10:23 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 03-22-2018, 06:14 AM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 03-22-2018, 06:36 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by TV MAN - 04-07-2018, 12:25 PM
RE: Fisher 500c rebuild - by Ron Ramirez - 04-11-2018, 10:15 AM



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