[Ron Ramirez]

Great to hear from you, Ed! But I am sorry to hear that your wife has been ill. Hopefully she is better now.

I haven't been back to this thread in awhile as I have been very busy working on the very 38-690 which is getting the new capacitors, and is the reason why I started this thread. I'm afraid that I've already ordered all of the caps. The Solen Fast fit the cans fine, even the two 8 uF caps I put in one can and connected in parallel to achieve 16 uF, to replace the 18 uF can.

For the missing cans, I took Bob A.'s advice and bought the big caps that fit in the clamps very well indeed.

When I got to the 30-2249, the film caps I bought to replace the 3 uF and 2 uF would not fit, so I ended up using electrolytics instead. I did put a Solen 8 uF cap in that can, though.

I've already planned to use electrolytics to replace the caps in 30-2247.

If I ever own another 38-690, I will certainly keep your part suggestions in mind. I really appreciate it! I only wish I had known this a month or so ago when I ordered the parts. Oh well. It was very kind of you to list all of the parts that will fit; thanks again.

Russ, thanks. Every 8 uF cap was replaced with a Solen save for the two for which the cans were missing. I replaced those with two 8 uF caps of the same style recommended by Bob Andersen in post #7, page 1, this thread. The 18 uF cap was replaced with two Solens end to end, connected in parallel as mentioned earlier. No problem with fitting both inside the can. The Nichicon UCS series? I'm hip. I've been using those Nichicon "pencils" for awhile.