09-29-2021, 02:03 PM
OK so a little update on this radio, the other day I tried turning this radio on and I was getting no love from it (it refused to power on) and it had been giving me some troubles with that previously where I had to jiggle the power switch back and forth a little bit in order to get it to power on, and so I thought maybe the power switch finally gave up the ghost.
So I took the unit apart and checked out the power switch and sure enough the only thing wrong with it was that the switch lever that the knob wiper makes contact with to turn the switch on with was bent out of whack so I bent the switch lever back into shape and now the switch is working again as it should.
Now for the weird part, while I was in there I decided I would replace all of the major capacitors that needed replacing in the radio (as suggested by MrFixr55) and for some reason after replacing most of the original paper caps in the radio, the radio's performance actually decreased, as in it got super quiet, and it isn't picking up as many stations as well as it used to before the recap.
I tried to replace the capacitors with values as close to the original values as possible (there were some old replacements in there that weren't the same value as the originals even so I replaced with as close to the orginal values given in the service data as possible.
My question is, why would this radio's performance quality go down after a recap versus how it was performing prior to the recap?
is it possible that the original caps were actually still good and were of superior quality compared to the modern ones I installed?!
This is really stumping me.
So I took the unit apart and checked out the power switch and sure enough the only thing wrong with it was that the switch lever that the knob wiper makes contact with to turn the switch on with was bent out of whack so I bent the switch lever back into shape and now the switch is working again as it should.
Now for the weird part, while I was in there I decided I would replace all of the major capacitors that needed replacing in the radio (as suggested by MrFixr55) and for some reason after replacing most of the original paper caps in the radio, the radio's performance actually decreased, as in it got super quiet, and it isn't picking up as many stations as well as it used to before the recap.
I tried to replace the capacitors with values as close to the original values as possible (there were some old replacements in there that weren't the same value as the originals even so I replaced with as close to the orginal values given in the service data as possible.
My question is, why would this radio's performance quality go down after a recap versus how it was performing prior to the recap?
is it possible that the original caps were actually still good and were of superior quality compared to the modern ones I installed?!
This is really stumping me.
