[Hammarlund] Caps?

[Bob Young]

I tried an alignment a little bit on the BCB with BCB stations, it seems like it is pretty good, also dial calibration is pretty close everywhere. I didn't check the IF though. I think I'm going to recap it before I do anything else,

Bob
KB1OKL

> From: barcand at nccray.com
> To: bobyoung53 at hotmail.com; hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Caps?
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:52:27 -0500
> 
> Bob,
> I've re-capped several Hallicrafters, Hammarlunds, an old Ncational, and a 
> Heathkit and have never found any of the postage stamp ceramic caps to be 
> bad or even leaky. I just concentrate on the paper electrolytics, the black 
> beauties and the red plasitc coated ones, and resistors that have gone 
> sky-high in their resistance.
> Have you done an allignment?  Sometimes that's all that is needed.  73
> 
> Bernie in ND