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When to recap a recap?
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Have several radios that I reworked in the time frame of 1980-1995. Most are AA5-AA6 sets the parts were purchased mostly from a company call All Electronics the E caps were mostly Nippon you could even buy tubes back then a set for AA5 cost around five dollars. So is it time to recap?
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Hello David ,
Have you used any of those radios lately and far as ones done in the 80s and 90s I would electrolytic capacitors are cheap !

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