[ARC5] Scott receiver

[WF2U]

I restuffed all the bathtub capacitors in my RCH, as they were all either completely shorted or very leaky. I unsoldered the lids - nothing  to worry about - they were filled with wax. In fact, I saved the wax and when I restuffed the cans with 600V mylar caps, I poured the melted the wax back into the cans to cover the new caps and fill the space, then I soldered the covers back in place.
The bathtubs, reinstalled, look as if they have never been tampered with, and the receiver works great. 

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC
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On Nov 3, 2017, 3:19 PM, at 3:19 PM, Joe Connor via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>Has anyone restuffed those bathtubs? I'm just wondering what toxic
>stuff lurks inside.
>I got an RCH for a great price a few years ago. The seller, who was
>technically savvy, said he just couldn't get the set to play no matter
>what he did, but I bought it anyway. I got it home, and figured my
>first step should be to test the tubes. It turns out the prior owner
>had inadvertently switched two tubes. Once they were in their correct
>sockets, the set played like a dream. It was a good reminder that
>troubleshooting should always include checking the really simple,
>obvious and basic things, too.
>                              Joe Connor 
>
>On Friday, November 3, 2017 3:09 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon
><kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>
> On 2 Nov 2017 at 19:46, Jim Haynes wrote:
>
>> I recently acquired an RCH also.  Waiting to find time to deal with
>all
>> the leaky caps.
>
>Yes. Same here. Seems like ALL the "bathtub" caps in those things go
>bad.
>
>Ken W7EKB
>
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