[ARC5] ARC 5 AGC problem solved

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Actually, there's an alternate way to do it that doesn't involve cutting and 
gluing.  Works on plug-in caps and vibrators, too (if the aluminum isn't 
brittle as it always is on VB-5's).  Take the narrowest pair (about 3/16" wide) 
Xcelyte flush cutting end cutters.  Preferably (I bought an extra pair just for 
this), dull (grind flat) one of the cutter tips and paint it black or your 
choice.  With the dull tip on the outside, place the sharp tip against where the 
rolled over aluminum lip meets the mica disk.  Close the cutters and rock them 
toward the outside of the cap can.  Work around the lip several times until 
the lip is standing up straight.  pull the disk out.  Repair the unit.  Seat the 
disk back down inside the lip and using a small shop hammer, work around the 
lip tapping it back down agains the disk.

In a message dated 6/16/2005 2:18:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
jmccarty at lucent.com writes: 
>     Here's an idea. Put it inside C-5. Just (very carefully) cut around the 
> rim of
> the cap on the mica window. Remove the window. Remove the guts of the bad 
> cap,
> including lil wire on the screw leg side. Solder your new cap from the post 
> on
> the back of the mice window to the hole on the bottom of the cap. Glue the 
> mica
> window back in. No one will ever know you were there. Got this idea from 
> Dave S.
> 

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