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Philco 66B restoration
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Cap #50 has been stuffed.  It was one of those foil wrapped in wax types that took a good bit of heating to pull it out.  I screwed a long screw into it first so I would have something to grip with the pliers.  Photos follow.  All the caps are now stuffed and I'm waiting for a tube order to arrive with the missing 6A7.  I haven't really started working on the "white" 116B I picked up I did pull the tubes to check them so I could put together the order.  Boy was that chassis dirty!!  Surprisingly, all the tubes in the set tested good.  I was trying to pull the top cap lead off of one of the 77s and pulled the whole cap off.  Even then the tube tested good so if I can get the cap back on it I'll be all set.  There were several more of those top cap leads on other tubes so I gave them all a small dose of WD-40 and let it sit over night.  The next day they all came off easily.

Pulling out the original caps...
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufiw536ti1vw7u....jpg?raw=1]

Adding in two 8uF solen film caps....
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5nidrc6tqycpm....jpg?raw=1]

All set to put it back into the chassis...
[Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghlypx0cosy2d9....jpg?raw=1]


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Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-24-2018, 07:08 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-24-2018, 07:15 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-24-2018, 07:24 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Arran - 09-25-2018, 04:18 AM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-25-2018, 07:51 AM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-25-2018, 05:49 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-25-2018, 07:15 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-26-2018, 09:17 AM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-26-2018, 11:47 AM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-27-2018, 12:21 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-27-2018, 03:22 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-27-2018, 07:46 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 09-27-2018, 07:59 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-27-2018, 08:09 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-27-2018, 10:08 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-27-2018, 10:42 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-28-2018, 02:30 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by morzh - 09-28-2018, 02:38 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Radioroslyn - 09-28-2018, 05:23 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 09-29-2018, 10:06 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by OldRestorer - 10-02-2018, 08:59 AM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-06-2018, 04:30 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-10-2018, 09:06 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-14-2018, 07:08 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Steve Davis - 10-14-2018, 08:46 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-14-2018, 11:24 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-20-2018, 07:16 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-26-2018, 03:14 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-26-2018, 03:26 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 10-26-2018, 04:07 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Radioroslyn - 10-26-2018, 04:51 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-26-2018, 07:30 PM
RE: Philco 66B restoration - by klondike98 - 11-01-2018, 07:38 PM



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