[R-390] BBOD caps/solder

[rbethman]

I second all of Tisha's comments.

I'd like to add one addition suggestion.

Pay more than passing interest to the contacts for the 50MC segment.  I 
found this to be an area that needed more attention than all the rest of 
them.  For some reason, that portion has more issues than others.

It took me over a year to figure out that band and resolve it.

I'd recommend that anyone going into the IF cans, to go slow! When you 
first get the cover off, take pictures from several angles.  This way, 
should you happen to inadvertently break a lead, you should be able to 
figure out where it WAS attached!  It has been my method for over 10 
years and has saved my bacon more than once.

Bob - N0DGN

On 12/15/2012 2:35 PM, Tisha Hayes wrote:
> Getting to those caps in the turret on the SP-600 is a pain in the behind.
> Since you are in there you probably want to clean up the contacts on the
> turret and the fingers that the posts slide across. Be really careful, they
> are pretty fragile. If you misalign anything when you are snapping the
> little decks back into place you can break fingers off.
>
> It was pretty tricky in the IF cans too, the magnet wire off of the
> inductors is just in a really bad place relative to the capacitors.
>
> I have seen those little blobs of solder on the ends of BBOD's too. I think
> one time I accidentally overheated one and the lead came right off of the
> cap body. It has been +20 years but I too had some recollection that there
> was a larger conductor inside of the cap that the lead attached to.
>