[Boatanchors] Micamold Recovery

[L L bahr]

I'ts reasons and ideas like this that keep me from buying "restored" radios from other hams.  I prefer to buy an unmolested one and then restore one as it should be restored.  Same thing with the boyz who insist on "reforming" a 30 to 40 year old electrolytic. Then when their bias blows up and wipes out the finals and transformer you then have to listen to the crying.  I found that buying a "restored radio" from another ham means if he did replace the can electrolytic, he installed axials or even worse radials under the chassis.

Yes the Mica Molds were made both as Silver Micas and also as Paper Condensers.  The paper had acid in it and with any moisture became a battery and the silver micas had the silver migrate around the edges or through cracks in the mica.  If you need a mica, use modern ruby red one.  If you need a paper cap, use a poly cap. Only thing worse then a Mica Mold is a Black Beauty cap!

Lee, w0vt



Junk parts is junk parts....no matter how much you bake it, coat it, plead
with it or anything else invented by the 'strokers'.
If the rig gets here....that stuff will be outta there in the first 5
minnets.