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Old 06-10-2012, 09:07 AM
kvflyer kvflyer is offline
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Originally Posted by charokeeroad View Post
"I have bought some tinned wire and thought that maybe the leads could be lengthened inside of the rebuilt paper cap."

Kvflyer, That soulds like a winner to me.
So, is it just me or are the modern day large value capacitors usually "too short" to be used in the factory location? And, I wonder if the layout of the vintage chassis was such that the larger caps (read longer length) would work? I know if you are replacing a .5 uFD @ 400 WVDC, it just may have been held in with a clamp! I did an Admiral that had some capacitors held in with a clamp. I didn't rebuild the original. But you can believe I saved them.

But again, nice, nice work. I love not only the look of the rebuilt electrolytic capacitors but also the rebuilt paper capacitors.
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