Fw: [R-390] Old Brown Beauty Statistics Lesson

[Cecil Acuff]

Sounds like a good philosophy to me....especially if you are taking 
someone's hard earned cash to do a restoration.  Who wants to get one back 
only to find one of the paper caps that you didn't replace has caused you so 
much grief.

Cecil Acuff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Wilson" <wewilson at knology.net>
To: "Lee Bahr" <pulsarxp at earthlink.net>
Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [R-390] Old Brown Beauty Statistics Lesson


> Lee Bahr wrote:
>
>>Sure wish you guys could shake hands and make up and lighten up a little.
>>
> I've taken no offense at this discussion.  It is a lively one, though. 
> Where is Joe?  He is usually the one stirring the pot.
>
> Honestly, I'd always replace the brown beauties because almost all that 
> I've tested leak way more than the others (yellow aerovox, metal vitamin 
> Q, or new orange drop).  Even the good brown beauties are quite leaky, and 
> the cracked ones are typically much more leaky.  I've tested enough to 
> form my own opinion.  And yea, we're all entitled to forming our own 
> opinions.
>
> I guess one of the reasons I replace some capacitors without cutting loose 
> one end and checking for leakage is 1) I enjoy working on radios, and 
> replacing caps is not a boring task to me, and 2) I want these 50+ year 
> old radios to last at least another 50 years.  I don't want to have to 
> come back in 5 or 10 years and go through the exercise again of searching 
> for a bad capacitor.  But that's just my opinion.
>
> Let's all keep having fun,
> Walter Wilson - KK4DF
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