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Old 08-24-2012, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by marty59 View Post
Looks like a clean non-smoker chassis at least. The wires on my Predicta are a sticky, fragile mess that I contend with. That filament resistor is just horrible as mine was opened up/burnt at one spot as well as the leads being all covered with that green corrosion....

Those 12CA5 audio output tubes like to run hot and ruin sockets as you know!
The wires in this set were pretty sticky too. I cleaned them off with lacquer thinner as best I could. I wonder why they used a mix of cloth and plastic insulated wires

The nasty old filament resistor has been replaced These silicone coated Dale power resistors should hold up for a long time.
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