[Eico] Capacitor replacement when restoring

[Gregory W. Moore]

 George, I have come to the same conlusion myself.  Some of the disks are in
less than mint condx. The cost is no small, and the work is easy, so that I may
as well go ahead and do a complete recap, solving several problems at once. At
leat I know that they are new, pristine components, and I won't have any going
into a loop while troubleshooting. If I am going to do the job right, I may go
ahead and change em all out........Since the work is stripped down to the extent
of evening removing the tube socket screws to enable me to eraser brush the
chassis, I may as well follow my original course, and wind up with a good ,
stable tranciever...so be it...they all go, and get replaced one at at time.
Since I have the original assy manual, it's just like building it up from
scratch again...hi. Besides, there cheap.... save the $ for good replacement
tubes.
73 es tnx
de Greg WA3IVX


"GEORGE BLAHUN JR." wrote:

> Greg:
>      Hello.  If you're going to all the trouble of a complete rebuild, I
> would replace all the caps unless expense is a concern.  The ceramic caps
> are probably ok but there is no way to tell if the are becoming brittle due
> to heating and cooling cycles, and for the same size components you can get
> a higher voltage rating and probably tighter specs.   You might get some
> opposing views, but my vote is to replace everything and make it better than
> it was.
>
> George
>

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> "Gregory W. Moore" <gwmoore@moorefelines.com>< snsip>
>
>
> > Ok, I realize that this is a simple question, and I should already know
> > this, but WHICH
> > caps beside the electrolytics should be replaced when doing a total
> > rebuild/restoration?  </snip>