[R-390] S&W R-390A, Update...

[Steve Kent]

Well, yeah, sort of.

The caps that I put in are new-ish surplus pulls, but they do bear late 
1980's date codes, so I figure it wouldn't be a bad thing.

73,
Steve - KW5CQ

Paul Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Steve Kent <steve.kent at att.net> wrote:
>   
>> After a long wait, I've finally gathered up all the parts that I need to
>> at least get close to plugging this beast in.
>>     
>
> Congratulations!
>
>   
>> I am getting pretty close to bringing this thing up on the variac....
>> Maybe tonight?
>>     
>
> I thought the purpose of doing such a thing was to help reform the
> electrolytic capacitors, but you just rebuilt those with new, so there
> doesn't seem to be any need to use a variac unless you really, really
> like variacs for some reason.  I do, by the way, but I probably won't
> coddle my R-390A's that way again... :)
>
> Paul
>
>