[R-390] Cap leakage

[Craig C. Heaton]

Afternoon Joe,

Guess there are different sides of the fence in which to stand, or sit upon!
If the piece of equipment is a real beauty, museum quality. I can see trying
to keep it all original down to the last screw, washer, and nut.

The one and only R-390A that I have is not museum quality and hasn't been
kept in the best of conditions. All the big pieces are there and with my
limited knowledge, I think all of sub-chassis are original. Just want a
dependable receiver that I shouldn't have to work on for a while when I'm
finished. In what was my line of work we called it, "on stream time". Kind
of use to seeing numbers better than 99.5% on stream.

So I guess I'm on the capacitor replacers side of the fence. Rather spend
the pennys on caps and not have to search for hard to find big dollar pieces
later.

Regards,
      Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Joel Richey
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:51 PM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [R-390] Cap leakage


The real fact-of-the matter- is capacitors made today are so much better the
the ones made in the 50's-60's and 70's that they approach the ideal cap,
and when people argue that there is no reason to replace a cap unless its
bad is foolish, when I rebuild a unit I, as a matter of fact replace every
cap, the ESR, etc is way superior.  To not replace a wax, Paper, black
bueaty or brown beauty just becaus you think it isn't bad is penny wise and
dollar foolish.  Quality  caps are cheap and when ckts were designed with
perfect caps why not provided them with em.  Thats my 2 cents..

Joe W2DBO
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