12-21-2010, 10:08 AM
Joe
Lucky you. I'm still looking for an FM tuner.
The rebuilt crystal cartridge works just fine. West-Tech did their usual good work.
In case you were unaware, my friend Syl has posted how to rebuild your own crystal cartridges here on the Phorum...
http://www.philcoradio.com/phorum/showth...p?tid=1019
I was getting close to college final exams at the time, so it was easier for me to just have it done. Sometime I am going to try doing it myself, though, using Syl's method.
By the way, the caps in my Magnavox (in both the AMP-101 and CR-188A chassis) all looked like large mica caps. The Micamolds were actually paper, and were all replaced. The real mica caps, Sangamo? brand I believe, were left in place. The caps that were cracked in your tuner were probably Micamold paper caps.
Lucky you. I'm still looking for an FM tuner.
The rebuilt crystal cartridge works just fine. West-Tech did their usual good work.
In case you were unaware, my friend Syl has posted how to rebuild your own crystal cartridges here on the Phorum...
http://www.philcoradio.com/phorum/showth...p?tid=1019
I was getting close to college final exams at the time, so it was easier for me to just have it done. Sometime I am going to try doing it myself, though, using Syl's method.
By the way, the caps in my Magnavox (in both the AMP-101 and CR-188A chassis) all looked like large mica caps. The Micamolds were actually paper, and were all replaced. The real mica caps, Sangamo? brand I believe, were left in place. The caps that were cracked in your tuner were probably Micamold paper caps.
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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN
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