[ARC5] Where's the beef?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

You want to tell him, Dave?  Hee hee.

In a message dated 9/22/2005 6:15:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
solo22 at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> I just joined this group about a week ago,  doe's any still hang out 
> here?  I've seen only a couple of postings about dynomotors and that's all.
> I'm a Q5-er lover.  I built my first one as a Novice in 1960,  my second 
> around 1972, and am building another one now.  In the first one,  all 
> onboard parts were very fresh and the radio worked flawlessly.
> The 2nd one was now about 25 years old and still worked great as is.  
> The one I'm building now, had all the capacitors oozing a black liquid 
> and most didn't test their respective values.  Reluctantly,  I "chopped" 
> them all out and replaced them with mylars.  Receiver works great!  So 
> now I be working on the converter.  It'll be using the broadcast band 
> capacitor setup only as a tunable band pass device ahead of a 6GM6 rf 
> amp.  That will capacitively couple to a 12AT7  mixer/xtal osc.
> Anyway, Hello to anyone and everyone out there.

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