[Hammarlund] Great Wes

[Joe Connor]

Congratulations, Wes. Let us know what happens after you get to use it for a while. I think you'll really notice much better performance with those new caps. 

                        Joe Connor



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> From: Stanley Adams <stanleybadams at yahoo.com>
>To: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:05 PM
>Subject: [Hammarlund] Great Wes
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>That is great Wes, mine has been chugging away now for about 6 or 7 years.
>I had a ground on the filament lead on V101 on the RF deck come loose after
>awhile and since that thing is so hard to remove and replace I just used
>about a 22 gauge wire and put it in the hole with the tube on top and
>wrapped the other end to a screw on the deck.  Works fine!  You will need to
>do an alignment possibly.  On all my bands accuracy is within half of the
>smallest gap between kilocycles.
>
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>Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:22:53 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Wes Bolin <k5apl at yahoo.com>
>To: "hammarlund at mailman.qth.net" <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [Hammarlund] SP600 Cap Re-Capped
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>I have just finished replacing 32 self-healing foil capacitors that replaced
>the feared BBODs. This time I used .01uFd ceramic discs and an Orange Drop
>metal foil cap for C102.?Previously the RF Deck was recapped with .01 uFd
>ceramics.? The radio still works! Now I can rest easier about the
>reliability of the radio.? FWIW the coiled leads made disassembly and
>reassembly very easy.? Now to play it and see if there is any difference to
>be heard or seen.
>Wes
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