I got a new 15μF capacitor from Farnell's this morning and have fitted that and the voltages are now spot on. I've only done it in a temporary way as it's as hot as a welder's clog up here and a dropper, valves and/or a soldering iron are not what's wanted.
I'm not going to restuff the can yet as at some stage I may make a reformer so it will be handy to experiment with.
Farnell's were the only place I could find who sell 15μF capacitors so, just for future reference, if I hadn't been able to get one would a 10μF or 22μF have been the best to use as 16μF is bang in the middle? I know the usual advise is "next one up" but that would make a total of 54μF and the UY51's limit is 50μF.
I also got a couple of 390pF ones, another value that was hard to find, so will try these as alternative tone correctors/IF bypass.
I'll probably make a repro dial too as the old one is so filthy that even LEDs can barely pierce the murk. That will have to wait until my printer can be trusted with expensive water-slide stuff though.
Cheers
- Joe
I'm not going to restuff the can yet as at some stage I may make a reformer so it will be handy to experiment with.
Farnell's were the only place I could find who sell 15μF capacitors so, just for future reference, if I hadn't been able to get one would a 10μF or 22μF have been the best to use as 16μF is bang in the middle? I know the usual advise is "next one up" but that would make a total of 54μF and the UY51's limit is 50μF.
I also got a couple of 390pF ones, another value that was hard to find, so will try these as alternative tone correctors/IF bypass.
I'll probably make a repro dial too as the old one is so filthy that even LEDs can barely pierce the murk. That will have to wait until my printer can be trusted with expensive water-slide stuff though.
Cheers
- Joe
