[ARC5] BC-348M

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Dennis,

If you really want it to keep it's original appearance it's not 
impossible to restuff the cans with modern caps. Most times the modern 
caps won't need as much space and so they'll fit - so say people have 
done it. I remove them and add them to my collection. Some day I might 
get around to restuffing them.

I have also seen where some people have saved the outer wrappers from 
*some* of the paper & fail caps and mounted the new caps 'inside'. Some 
others have made new wrappers to look like the originals, potted the new 
caps, and wrapped them with the new wrappers. Just some hints about how 
you might do it.

I don't have the interest in keeping the inside looking like original. I 
do prefer to have old radios working "as designed" and looking like they 
did way back when - but not necessarily looking like brand new. I won't 
be putting product detectors in my command receivers, etc. My guess is 
nobody will be looking inside mine to see that those original cans have 
been replaced by smaller caps wired directly on the terminals they are 
to bypass. I also have some resistors made in Asia in there <evil grin>.

Good luck with your project.

Merry Christmas.  Ho, ho, ho!

73,

Bill  KU8H   aka   Santa Claus

On 12/20/2013 02:39 PM, Dennis Pharr wrote:
> Bill:
>
> OK, you and Ken are obviously correct.  I was thinking the caps were
> single-section caps fully insulated from the can - but that must not be the
> case.  They are multi-section with the can used as common.
>
> And, by the way, all but one of them show signs of leakage, so I am going to
> remove them and do the re-build on each one - which is a huge PIA and messy
> to boot. But, I can't bring myself to just gutting them out and replacing
> them with the modern caps in plain view.  I might consider doing that, but
> hate to since this particular radio is almost completely original - the only
> visible mod is someone in the past re-wired the filaments for 6.3vac. Also,
> all the paper caps need to be replaced - which will not look original either
> - so it really doesn't make sense to re-build the canned caps if all the
> other replaced caps will be visible.  I'm not sure which way to go here - I
> may just flip a coin.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> 73
> Dennis
> WD5JWY
>