[R-390] Resistors (in areas other than the RF/IF deck

[Moe Fretz]

I might add also
""
the only good paper cap or BBOD is one that
you have sold on ebay to an audiophool.
"""""""
You can always tell if the caps are bad by the amount of rattle
they make when they hit the garbage can.





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Moe Fretz
Collection and Preservation
Canadian Tube Radios, Communication Equipment, Vintage Ham gear and
Military Radios.
Hallicrafters, RCA, National, Hammarlund,TMC, RME and Racal.

www.radiopreservationguy.com

Don't part them out ---- Restore them.

Cambridge
Ontario Canada

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:

> For power supply type applications I often use 5 watt cermet (ceramic)
> resistors. I not even like to leave 50 year old carbon comps across caps in
> the power supply.
>
> I can see that there are some people who are quite passionate over the
> metal film vs. the rest of the world for resistor choices. By default I
> will do a swap for a metal film because I have thousands of them in a
> variety of wattages and %'s. If I run across one that ends up skewing a
> tuned circuit I go "hmm, interesting, try to find a different resistor,
> swap it again and move along".
>
> Generally I am against shotgunning components with the exception of paper
> caps, BBOD or leaky oil caps (the only good paper cap or BBOD is one that
> you have sold on ebay to an audiophool. They can mix it with their quad
> eutectic solder, cryo-treated tubes and oxygen free copper wires).
>
> *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA*
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