02-11-2019, 11:22 PM
Terry, although I'm not into vintage TV's, I'm glad I'm not the only one who metaphorically has his 'service engineer's hat on, when repairing old radios, etc. i.e., I use the nearest available modern components, usually the yellow axial capacitors to replace old wax types, and 2 watt metal film or similar resistors to replace old carbon composition ones, in that case because they are a similar size. I seldom, if ever re-stuff old capacitors, although im a pre-war Philips radio I did fit modern axial capacitors inside the tubes the originals, because it was easy to do, and made fitting the replacements easy, too!
