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Re-stuffing metal bodied capacitors.
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04-20-2019, 10:44 AM
a couple shots of my most recent filter cap reworking..

I made myself up a common return for all the cap Neg leads to bond to using solid #10awg copper.
that common sicks out the bottom of the set and is soldered to the radios original common chassis bond.


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