[Hallicrafters] ebay SX-88 - Wow!

[rbethman]

Nick,

He probably ran across the problem that has been discussed before.  
Those capacitors are in use for bypassing.  Glen Z. and I have spoke 
about the issue, and the real solution is to replace the capacitors AND 
add a resistance in parallel to make it equal to the "necessary" signal 
the circuit needs.

Some of us have found this problem when restoring other radios.  When 
you go through and replace all the old plastic encapsulated paper caps, 
you sometimes run into circuits where the designers were using and 
designing their radios based on the available components.  When modern 
ones are popped in, sometimes you need to adjust things.

This gentleman probably does not know this, replaced them, found out the 
circuit didn't function properly any longer, and put them back.

Bob - N0DGN

hallicraftersx28 at aol.com wrote:
> Interestingly the guy didn't replace  the black beauities mounted on the wafer switches (that control the IF passband).They are just as bad as the other.
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