[Boatanchors] Capacitors

[Rob Atkinson]

every can cap I look at seems to have been potted.

Rob
K5UJ

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM, <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

> A much better method is to remove the canned capacitor, open up the bottom
> crimp, pull out the contact plate, and re-stuff them with new ones.  Radial
> lead types are pretty much worthless (if you care what your work looks
> like)
> for under chassis replacements but work quite well for re-stuffing cans.  I
> did about 20 of them last year in a PP-351.  Aside from the silicon bridges
> in place of selenium (and the fact that it works quite well 56 years on),
> no one would know that I had ever been into it.
>
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