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Old 02-16-2019, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Gleb View Post
That's true, but the sad thing is that there's almost nothing original left under the chassis... On the other hand, there's no choice, you have to do something with all that leaky capacitors and drifted resistors. BTW, are the original-looking Allen-Bradley resistors hard to find in usable quantities? As I guess, they remained in production until recently (up to the 80s or so)
I lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for 46 years, about a quarter mile from the large Allen-Bradley plant!
If the breeze was right, I could smell the resistor department aroma. They moved the resistor and small potentiometer department to Mexico sometime in the 70's or 80's.
Centralab did the same.
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