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Old 07-09-2010, 02:37 AM
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The few Kaiser KG ( Kaiser-Werke ) radios I could find which were similar to your's have model numbers starting with W, like W1636, W1838. These seem to have the number printed on the back of the radio, or on a sticker. Your sticker might have fallen off.

As for your capacitors there, they appear to be WIMA's...a German-brand and almost certainly the originals that came in your radio when it was new. They have rather large figures on there, probably rated in pF's rather than uF's. Looks like one might be 5000pF? with 1000 below it? and rated at 500V. The other also looks like it say's 5000 with a 500 below it. It's very hard to make out, plus I'm not particularly familiar with German radios! You may need to twist them a bit and write down every number you see on there and try and make some sense out of it.

Have you taken the whole chassis out to look underneath? There's probably a lot more capacitors like these in there that are just barely hanging on to life.

Oh, and Phil's Radios is a great site, btw! I've spent hours reading through his restorations and I learned a lot from it!
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