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Originally Posted by jstout66
Nice set, but I learned those are one of the FEW sets of that era where you really DO need to recap the boards. I can't remember the brand, but Motorola used some really crappy caps, IIRC they are brown, and those boards gave us fits in the 80's. It was not the mindset of the era to even service the boards, but to simply exchange for rebuilt. Good luck with the set tho.
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Do you mean the brown tubular film caps (or paper?), or the electrolytics? I'm restoring one of these too, and intend to test and replace all electrolytics, but the brown plastic ones seem suspiciously like paper capacitors. Gotta pull some and test for leakage current.
08-08-2016, 10:34 AM
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