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Philco 38-690 electronics restoration.
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The Power / Audio Amp chassis is on the bench now.

   
   

Same deal, whoever owned it at some point painted it with aluminum paint using a brush.
Plus the caps are not original, obviously, with one seem to be missing (will find out when the sch comes from Chuck). And some  substitutes are axial under-chassis jobs/

Some Candohm; at least one I checked, the shorter one, seems OK; will know with the sch.

I also extracted the sole aluminum can cap from the main chassis.

Here's something I don't get from the label; maybe someone knows why:


   

The label says "Replacing mfd: 8 - 8", which is understood, replacing a dual 8uF cap. But then it says "Actual Mfd - 1.75- 1.75" which tells me it is a dual 1.75uF cap. (BTW still measure 3-3uF).
What does that mean?

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Philco 38-690 electronics restoration. - by morzh - 04-12-2017, 08:19 PM
RE: Philco 38-690 electronics restoration. - by morzh - 04-30-2017, 07:53 PM



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