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Who Looks Under A Chassis?
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One more thing on the subject of re-stuffing paper capacitor shells, don't assume that just because the brands and or labels of the capacitors you find under a chassis don't all match each other means that they are not all original parts. The big guys like Philco and Brand Z may have installed caps with their own branding on them but many of the small and medium sized manufacturers did that. For example in one post war Electrohome radio I have worked on the caps did not match, there was a mix of Aerovox and Solar Sealtite caps under the chassis, the only cap that was changed, in one of them, was changed by me 20+ years ago, and it was a Sangamo little chief I stuck in there because I didn't have anything else. I don't doubt that this was true of many other manufacturers, they probably needed some .05 uf at 630 vdc and found that Solar could furnish a reliable supply but Aerovox could not, however Aerovox could come up with all of the .005 ufs and .01 ufs they wanted, or maybe Solar offered a better deal? I see to have also remembered running into both Sprague and Cornell Dubilier paper caps in a Rogers I was working on, there were some replacements but those were mostly 1940s vintage so they got re-stuffed and put back in since they didn't look odd, yellow plastic do, so do orange drops and disk caps in a vintage radio. About the only detail I fuss about is getting a cardboard shell with the same capacity and voltage ratings as the O.E.M cap is it has been replaced, they all get 630 vdc yellow caps stuffed inside regardless.
Regards
Arran


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Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-17-2018, 05:30 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by morzh - 02-17-2018, 10:50 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 02-18-2018, 01:46 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-18-2018, 11:27 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-18-2018, 11:57 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Eliot Ness - 02-18-2018, 04:06 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-18-2018, 07:14 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-18-2018, 07:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Brad Winder - 02-19-2018, 12:49 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-19-2018, 01:29 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by morzh - 02-19-2018, 03:24 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 02-19-2018, 04:02 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by TV MAN - 02-19-2018, 04:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 02-19-2018, 05:30 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 02-19-2018, 11:35 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by tbone - 02-23-2018, 08:51 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-04-2018, 11:39 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by WyTex - 04-04-2018, 12:41 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-05-2018, 04:33 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 10:30 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 04-05-2018, 01:38 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 04:17 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by OldRestorer - 04-05-2018, 07:31 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Phlogiston - 04-05-2018, 08:17 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by EdHolland - 04-05-2018, 10:38 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-06-2018, 01:58 AM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Dan_in_WA - 04-07-2018, 09:55 PM
RE: Who Looks Under A Chassis? - by Arran - 04-08-2018, 12:37 AM



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