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Zenith K526
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OH MY you guys are amazing! What a history lesson, my grandson and I really enjoyed the detail of rural life and the radio, which is how they learned of outside news, and commodities for the farms.

I keep staring at my project and wonder wear to start! I like the idea of building power supplies but it would be cool to keep it all stock, I just don't know how practical that would be....

I still have one on the bench to complete. Its the Zenith K526 and just got all he caps in the mail last week. I am such a Newby! Some on this stuff I have not thought about since I was 14. Now 71, I have that same amounts of time I had then. I just have to rotate my time around honey dues etc.

I have a question about replacing the electrolytic cap in the Zenith. I purchased single capacitors to replace the one electrolytic. It has four (4) lugs. I for the life of me cant figure out where the other end of the new cap goes and where it gets landed! I lift the components from the original position and pay attention to polarity, but what the heck! Where does the other end go! To chassis ground? Don't laugh, I took my last electronics class in 1970. I should break out my Amateur Radio Handbook, I bet the answer is there I am sure!

justin-


Messages In This Thread
Zenith K526 - by Justin A - 09-21-2023, 02:36 PM
RE: Zenith K526 - by David - 09-22-2023, 08:43 PM
RE: Zenith K526 - by MrFixr55 - 09-22-2023, 11:17 PM
RE: Zenith K526 - by Radioroslyn - 09-23-2023, 11:17 AM
RE: Zenith K526 - by morzh - 09-23-2023, 01:09 PM
Zenith K526 - by Radioroslyn - 09-21-2023, 04:14 PM
RE: Model 37-38B - by Justin A - 09-21-2023, 06:28 PM
RE: Model 37-38B - by Radioroslyn - 09-22-2023, 06:04 AM



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