[GreenKeys] Off topic: variable transformer

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Yes, but your customers are undoubtedly in a different market and don't 
care at all what the equipment looks like internally.  They will probably never 
look inside and probably wouldn't know what they were looking at if they 
did.  My assumption, based on more than half a century of experience with 
hacked equipment, is that anything inside that doesn't look original is 
automatically suspected of having been done wrong until proven right.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 07/28/2016 09:15:48 AM Central Daylight Time, 
jdangus at att.net writes: 
> Why is there such an aversion to replacing electrolytic capacitors?
> The electrolytic capacitors available today are cheaper, smaller and by 
> far,
> much better than anything sold in the past.
> And on the subject of reforming, "May take hours."
> Why not spend the time replacing it and be done with it.
> 
> I restore vintage tube gear for a living.
> After doing the usual "is something is shorted?" checks, the first thing I
> do is replace the capacitors. All of them.
> "Shotgunning!" you say, that's not being a technician.
> No, it's called an effective use of my time.
> The stuff works 99% of the time, that other 1% is when I get to play
> technician and find out what else is wrong with the equipment.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff-1.0
> wa6fwi
> http://www.foxsmercantile.com
> 
> 
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