02-13-2025, 10:56 PM
Mike;
The last time I took a potted condenser can apart, and it was maybe 1/4 the size of the one in the model 96, I melted the tar/pitch out first, then drove a screw into one of the condensers in the middle, and pulled it out with a hammer claw I think. They really pack those things in, but once you get one of the paper caps out, the rest will come out easily. It was a completely square box, made out of tin they reused from some food product, it still had part of the label on the inside, Canadian Westinghouse was frugal I guess, and labour was cheap in 1931. Anyhow the replacement caps mounted on the inside of the original terminal strip on one side of the can, and didn't take up much room, so I stuffed one of the original paper caps in the top just to fill up space, and stiffen up the can, and filled the rest up with old candle wax, and topped it off with the tar I melted out.
Regards
Arran
The last time I took a potted condenser can apart, and it was maybe 1/4 the size of the one in the model 96, I melted the tar/pitch out first, then drove a screw into one of the condensers in the middle, and pulled it out with a hammer claw I think. They really pack those things in, but once you get one of the paper caps out, the rest will come out easily. It was a completely square box, made out of tin they reused from some food product, it still had part of the label on the inside, Canadian Westinghouse was frugal I guess, and labour was cheap in 1931. Anyhow the replacement caps mounted on the inside of the original terminal strip on one side of the can, and didn't take up much room, so I stuffed one of the original paper caps in the top just to fill up space, and stiffen up the can, and filled the rest up with old candle wax, and topped it off with the tar I melted out.
Regards
Arran
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