[Boatanchors] Re-capping

[Mark Bell]

This technique is called "Twiddles";  and works great.   It saves you from
possibly breaking decades old solder lugs, and lets any future owners of the
radio know where someone has replaced a component etc

73 Mark K3MSB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Basford" <roger at new-gate.co.uk>
To: <ke7kk at earthlink.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:51 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Re-capping


> Hi Bill,
>
> When I re-capped my HRO-50 I cut the leads of the old caps to leave about
a
> quarter-inch of wire at the terminals, then cleaned the stub up. I took
the
> new caps (ex-Russian military!) and using a small drill bit as a former
> wound a small coil of the new cap connecting wire parallel to the
capacitor
> at each end with enough wire tail to reach the stubs. I slipped the coils
> over the old wire, crimped the coils gently to tighten them on the wire
and
> then soldered. A bit more work than is perhaps necessary but better then
> trying to unsolder the old wires from the terminals, which often have
become
> brittle with age and break. Looks neat too!
>
> HTH,
>
> Roger, G3VKM
>
>
>
>
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