[Boatanchors] Man, That's One HEAVY Radio!

[Rob Atkinson]

The cabinet is supposed to weigh around 15 pounds.

I have had bad luck with the stock oil filter caps in the power
supply.  It's probably a good idea to pull that capacitor unit and
replace it with three clusters of polypropylene film caps.  I
paralleled five of them, each 600 v. 1 mfd.  one cluster of five for
each filter cap.  They are small and fit in underneath no problem.  I
covered the chassis hole for the original filter cap unit with a
rectangle of brass sheet metal.  The stock caps are rated for 500 v.
and became electrically leaky.

I originally tried to use the can the oil caps came in, but I could
not separate it from the oil caps inside.

Rob
K5UJ

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2/15/2015 1:26 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> Did they ship it in a crate?  I think that was the way they were
>> originally sent out.
>
> Yes, it was crated but not in the original crate which I assume previously
> turned into kindling.  The school had a shop class and the boys got some
> practical experience in radio crating.   It arrived in good shape, with an
> obligatory small dielectric oil stain under the spot where the filter
> capacitors were.    If I recall correctly, the cabinet accounts for a good
> fraction of the total weight, not that the receiver itself is "light".
>
> Thanks Brian, for reminding me that I also have a WRR-2 waiting in the shop
> (in two pieces!) which clocks in at 220 pounds - a welterweight compared
> with some of the stuff guys like Nick and K9WT have on the air.
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN