[R-390] IF deck caps

Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:09:23 -0600

The decision is made, the original yellow jacket Aerovox's stay in. Thanks
for all the friendly advice. Now on to the audio deck, and trying to find a
560 ohm 2W carbon Rippel resistor!
73, Jerry W5KP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Kincade" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: [R-390] IF deck caps

> I know the failure rate of Black and Brown Beauties, but do the yellow
> Aerovox jobs suffer a high failure rate too? I ask because I just (groan)
> looked at the nearly 20 of them packed into the underside of this Teledyne
> IF deck that will require replacement if ALL the paper caps must be
changed
> out. Some of them are pretty well buried. My other 390A, which was gone
over
> prior to my purchase by a fairly well known rebuilder, had only C-553 and
> the BBOD's replaced, all the original yellow Aerovox's were left in. Was
> this a bad move on the restorer's part? That particular radio has worked
> like a champ for 3 years now.
> Jerry W5KP
>
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