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Ron's 53-960

Ron Ramirez
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11-16-2014, 09:36 PM

The first job was to restuff a set of paper capacitors.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00002.jpg]

Many of these caps are courtesy of Phorum member Kekoa; thanks again! Icon_thumbup

I decided it would make things simpler if I had a set of restuffed caps ready to go into the set when I began working on it.

Let's look under the hood:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00004.jpg]

Mostly paper caps, along with a few of those bumblebee caps which the guitar guys love but due to their age, really are no longer any good as capacitors.

Look close - two of those bumblebees are being used as line bypass caps! Icon_eek

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...e00005.jpg]

Those will be replaced with X1/Y2 safety caps.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN

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Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-16-2014, 09:31 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-16-2014, 09:36 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-16-2014, 09:40 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by KCMike - 11-16-2014, 09:45 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-18-2014, 06:04 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by KCMike - 11-18-2014, 06:29 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 11-18-2014, 08:45 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Arran - 11-19-2014, 05:52 AM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-19-2014, 08:15 AM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-19-2014, 10:07 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-19-2014, 10:17 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by KCMike - 11-19-2014, 11:07 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Kekoa - 11-19-2014, 11:20 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Arran - 11-20-2014, 02:52 AM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-20-2014, 10:26 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Arran - 11-22-2014, 05:11 AM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by KCMike - 11-20-2014, 10:57 PM

RE: Ron's 53-960 - by Ron Ramirez - 11-20-2014, 11:04 PM

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