01-08-2015, 11:03 PM
I just finished a 37-116 a few months ago. The majority of the caps are pretty easy to get to, except a couple in the RF chassis. There are two in there that are buried user the arc of coils. I needed to replace the rubber grommets, so I hat to pull my RF chassis regardless. Even with the RF chassis out, it was still a pain to get to those two.
There isn't a whole lot of room under the chassis to add the new lytics. So this was the first radio I restuffed my cans on. As for the bakelite blocks, in addition to the previously mentioned methods, I find you can usually chisel out the old tar. I use a small flat blade screw driver to break out the bits of tar. I just suck them all up with my shop vac. Then use some lacquer thinner on q tips or paper towels to get out what remnants I couldn't get out with the screw driver.
There isn't a whole lot of room under the chassis to add the new lytics. So this was the first radio I restuffed my cans on. As for the bakelite blocks, in addition to the previously mentioned methods, I find you can usually chisel out the old tar. I use a small flat blade screw driver to break out the bits of tar. I just suck them all up with my shop vac. Then use some lacquer thinner on q tips or paper towels to get out what remnants I couldn't get out with the screw driver.
