[R-390] Bull Roar

[Barry]

>Joe, No TRUER WORDS WERE EVER spoken on this reflector. My parents, 
>grandparents and a lot of other people have always told me if it works 
>leave it alone. Too many self design wannabe engineers that want to 
>redesign the wheel that are in a square hole trying to ream them out 
>round with a very small Swiss file. There are a lot on members here that 
>worked on them with racks of them that PM was the main reason they took 
>them off line, under adverse operating conditions, heat, cold, under 
>voltage, over voltage, tube shields, no shields, shiny, black ones, 
>covers no covers and stored outside at St Juliens and after a little 
>elbow grease and some water and due diligence with a little teaking lo 
>and behold it works very close to like new without black temp. 
>compensating shields. Plug it in set it on freq. come back in 6 months 
>and Damm its is still where you left it right on the mark. So in other 
>words LITFA and enjoy it.
>Hank
>KN6DI

When it stops working and the part(s) that falied are no longer available, then what do you do?  Is it wise to let that blocking capacitor leak to the point that it takes out that $40++ filter when it could have been replaced with a modern, $2 capacitor?

Barry - N4BUQ