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Originally Posted by Electronic M
My dad's family had a Corvair until 1970 when the floors began to rust out, and my grandparents sold it because it was not all that safe for my dad who was 5 at the time or his younger brothers what with the rotten floor and all.
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Floor holes are 'unsafe at any speed'!
Now for CTC-5 related news- the new FP electrolytics came in the mail today, so I will spend the night replacing them and making the necessary wiring changes to make them work with the chassis. Since it was not possible to get exact replacements, I had to make a compromise.
The stock chassis has:
80uf/40uf@450 volts (x3)
50uf/50uf/5uf@450 volts (x1)
I order the following from AES:
40uf/40uf/40uf@525 volts (x3)
30uf/30uf/30uf/30uf@475 volts (x1)
To make the new ones work, the 40uf/40uf/40uf caps will have a pair of 40uf sections tied together to make them 80/40 cans. The 30/30/30/30 can will get paired as well, so I end up with a 60/60 to replace the original 50/50 one. The remaining 5uf section is only a horizontal output cathode bypass cap, so it's low enough voltage to be replaced by a common axial unit. After all of that, I'll power it up again and see where I stand. Probably will go right into tweaking the tuner and convergence.
