11-05-2017, 06:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2017, 06:54 PM by Geordie McBoyne.)
Work is progressing well. At least one hour per day is devoted to the restoration of this set.
The attachments show some of the capacitors taken from the 1804, these were restuffed today.
I think we have to agree those yellow hi-viz capacitors look awful in vintage sets.
Actually I don't mind seeing Philips polyester capacitors fitted in old equipment, somehow these look OK.
In the mid sixties I remember one radio and television dealer in Newcastle who used to buy Mullard/Philips capacitors by the sackfull. The new capacitors were considered a revelation especially when one remembers the rubbish capacitors we had to work with in those times. Tolerable leakage and all that.
Three EMI 0.047microfarad capacitors also get the treatment.
There's plenty of TCC waxies available but the EMI ones are a bit scarce.
Geordie McBoyne.
The attachments show some of the capacitors taken from the 1804, these were restuffed today.
I think we have to agree those yellow hi-viz capacitors look awful in vintage sets.
Actually I don't mind seeing Philips polyester capacitors fitted in old equipment, somehow these look OK.
In the mid sixties I remember one radio and television dealer in Newcastle who used to buy Mullard/Philips capacitors by the sackfull. The new capacitors were considered a revelation especially when one remembers the rubbish capacitors we had to work with in those times. Tolerable leakage and all that.
Three EMI 0.047microfarad capacitors also get the treatment.
There's plenty of TCC waxies available but the EMI ones are a bit scarce.
Geordie McBoyne.
