30-12-2012, 06:00 PM
It is a nice looking set, Kevin. Well worth restoring, I'd say. I know what Steve meant when he cautioned about changing caps - possibly he suspected you were going to do the lot at once and besides, often it isn't necessary to change more than the odd coupler - but with a set of this age plus unknown storage conditions, you are wise to check all and change any that appear suspect. Same with resistors but remember that valve circuitry is tolerant of quite wide 'drift' in resistor values - it is only in the case of bias resistors where things get a bit critical.
Many's the 1930s set where I've checked caps and changed only the faulty ones, only to find a week or two later that one or more of the apparently blameless ones have failed during running tests.
Tony
Many's the 1930s set where I've checked caps and changed only the faulty ones, only to find a week or two later that one or more of the apparently blameless ones have failed during running tests.
Tony
