[Hallicrafters] Re: [Boatanchors] BBOD's are really reliable (sic)

[Gary Pewitt]

Start by going through your cap checker and replacing -all- the caps with 
new ones of high quality.  Now you can start checking everything else with 
it.
See if you have a chisel and a hammer you can make a file.  Once you have a 
file you can make anything.  ;-)
73  Gary




At 10:57 AM 6/5/2005, jeff wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 22:51, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> > recommendation has always been and remains that all Black Beauties 
> should be replaced
> > out of hand
>
>I'm confused.
>(this is nothing new)
>
>I bought a Craftsman DMM with capacitance range.  WHen I attach a cap to
>it, it gives consistent readings, in that they're always nowhere close
>to the marked value.
>
>Not to be outdone by electronic components, I ordered a cap checker.
>The meter that showed up doesn't have a cap range.
>
>As a last straw, I found one of those cool Eico cap/resistance testers
>with the green eye tube.  This one reads weird too.... sometimes close,
>sometimes not.
>
>Could someone suggest a way to check capacitance that doesn't involve
>purchasing a $1000 HP tester or capacitance standard?  Perhaps I'm just
>not meant to check caps :)
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dumbfounded with Dielectrics
>
>
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