[R-390] R390A CAPACITOR POWERED COFFEE

[Bob Camp]

Hi

We chat about how silly keeping BBOD’s is and in my book that’s correct. Of course if you went back 50 years, there were a lot of things I did to ARC-5’s and R-390’s that would get me yelled at today. 

Here’s my guess:

We’re going to pull out all the original parts from these radios and one with the “real stuff” in it will become the oddity. The next generation down the line will be after a radio that “looks correct”. They will be going out and finding BBOD bodies to stuff new capacitors into. Yes, it sounds silly to us today. Not chopping up a radio to turn it into a frankenstein radio would have sounded very silly to me 50 years ago. 

Putting the pulled caps in an old coffee can may not be a bad idea.

Bob


> On Oct 26, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Oct 26, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> if you really want to drive up the costs of those fine, aged BBOD's you
>> need to tin the leads with silver solder and state that they have a
>> super-rare "silver leads”.
> 
> May I suggest a further enhancement: cryogenic treatment.
> 
> I have seen line cords for hi fi equipment that had been treated in liquid nitrogen being offered for over seven hundred dollars each.
> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
> RoyMorgan at alum.mit.edu
> K1LKY Since 1958
> 
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