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Who Looks Under A Chassis?
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That is one style of capacitor that I have not figured out how to restuff, a Solar "Sealtite" cap. I always figured that the Solar "Sealtites" were kind of like a carbon resistor, that they were molded and there wasn't really a way to get them apart. One strange feature about the Sealtites is that they are one of the few vintage capacitors that I have encountered where many are still functional, which is interesting since Solar was apparently a cheap brand back in the day. 
  Speaking of difficult to restuff, there is a guy on You Tube that demonstrates how to restuff those older plastic molded capacitors, such as the Sangamo "Little Chiefs", and the black bumble bee caps (Sprague?). I don't know how practical this is but it clearly works, he cuts one end off, and then drills out the innards with a drill bit of the appropriate size.
  The restuffing I do isn't exactly museum grade, but I hate the look of yellow caps or brown/orange drops under an old radio chassis, especially if it's a pre war set, post war I care less about.
However in the case of a Canadian RCA-Victor A-30 I am working on  I don't care since I'm not planning to keep the thing, and someone already had a go at recapping it in the early 60s so most of the originals are gone. It's a six tube console from 1940-41 and is not rare, nor valuable, but I'm doing a quick and dirty job on it like some of the Fleabay and Radio Attic sellers do and have it come back to bite me.
Regards
Arran


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Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-17-2018, 05:30 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by morzh - 02-17-2018, 10:50 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 02-18-2018, 01:46 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-18-2018, 11:27 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-18-2018, 11:57 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Eliot Ness - 02-18-2018, 04:06 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-18-2018, 07:14 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-18-2018, 07:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Brad Winder - 02-19-2018, 12:49 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-19-2018, 01:29 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by morzh - 02-19-2018, 03:24 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-19-2018, 04:02 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by TV MAN - 02-19-2018, 04:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-19-2018, 05:30 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 02-19-2018, 11:35 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by tbone - 02-23-2018, 08:51 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-04-2018, 11:39 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by WyTex - 04-04-2018, 12:41 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-05-2018, 04:33 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 10:30 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 04-05-2018, 01:38 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 04:17 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by OldRestorer - 04-05-2018, 07:31 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 08:17 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 04-05-2018, 10:38 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-06-2018, 01:58 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Dan_in_WA - 04-07-2018, 09:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-08-2018, 12:37 AM



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