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Just finished a 48-700 and have a 48-1000 waiting
Finally finished the 48-700 electrical restore. A bit of fun with the HV caps. Tall one shorted about 3 hours after the 3 day long variac power up cycle completed. Typical!! Metal HV oil cap under chassis arced internally often enough to be a pain so it was retired. Big one stayed inplace disconnected, the oil one gone. 0.1uf Tesla caps are available to 10kv and fit nicely under the chassis. 6kv one for the video coupler also available and cheaper. All a bit pricey, but readily available on Ebay. Definately do not want to get across those 10kv'ers!! The rest was standard cap, resistor and wire replacement. Video and Audio alignment went perfectly. Used a Leader 480 U80 S&M. Does a nice job in the 24Mhz IF. John F helped me with a few tuner strips. Had to rewind 2 to get on freq. I needed ch 2 4 and 6 for my home TV 3 channel station. Not worried about any 2009 digitial BS. I'm still very low power analog throught out the house. 4 servers, 1 RAID, 3 agile modulators, KMPlayer and bingo! 24/7 RF to rabbit ears. Just like the 40-50's! Love XPMedia Center and Xvid...all the old programing all the time.
Anyone have a source for the tuner number/stars repros?? Might be able to scan them in.
Jack
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