04-24-2023, 06:39 PM
Cap stuffing!
I've emptied all the Bakelites and gutted the e-cap cans, and I just received a bunch of new caps from JustRadios.
For the cans, I have a little variation: Just because I have the material and a lathe, I turned new bases from solid PVC bar. Cap leads come out the bottom and attach to screwed-in solder lugs. This includes the leads that would go to the trapped side lugs on the cans, so the cans are now isolated from circuitry.
One can is an 8 & 10 μF combo. I was about to rebuild it by blithely tying the negative leads together... nope! Read the dang schematic, duh. They're in series.
New turned base with solder lugs for the 8μF ecap:
ecap secured with a glob of gooey glue:
Assembled with insulator and clamp- solid:
Not the can above... but another can combines e-caps 58 & 61... in series.
I've emptied all the Bakelites and gutted the e-cap cans, and I just received a bunch of new caps from JustRadios.
For the cans, I have a little variation: Just because I have the material and a lathe, I turned new bases from solid PVC bar. Cap leads come out the bottom and attach to screwed-in solder lugs. This includes the leads that would go to the trapped side lugs on the cans, so the cans are now isolated from circuitry.
One can is an 8 & 10 μF combo. I was about to rebuild it by blithely tying the negative leads together... nope! Read the dang schematic, duh. They're in series.
New turned base with solder lugs for the 8μF ecap:
ecap secured with a glob of gooey glue:
Assembled with insulator and clamp- solid:
Not the can above... but another can combines e-caps 58 & 61... in series.
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