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1964 Corvair Delco radio - caps
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Definitely an "other radio!" All transistor. Model 985832.
The caps all look like new. Delco brand. Sealed plastic. And all are soldered to a circuit board. Would they still be good after nearly 50 years?
And the metal can with 3 electrolytics, 4, 400 and 850 uf. That one, at least, has wire leads and would be easy to replace. I'm hesitant to heat up the circuit board unnecessarily.
Thanks.
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It will either work or it will not, usually the mode of failure is that the caps will have dried out resulting in low volume, and or distortion.
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Hello fenbach,
Yes, as Arran put it the capacitors will be dried out and need to be replaced !

Sincerely richard
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You are correct about the circuit board. It is a pressed wafer board similar to tube socket material and doesn't like much heat or moisture. Circuit traces will lift off if over heated.
#5

Black beauty caps are nothing but old style caps with a plastic coating, look nice but always bad! Me thinks you have the GM version of a black beauty. I know it does not look nice but when working on old printed circuit boards I clip the part and solder the new part to the studs and stay away from the PCB.




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