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i had an admiral 12" bakelite console , i think it was chassis 20x1 , it ran on the original electrolytics and almost ran on wax paper caps , person i sold it to i told him to try to run it atleast once a month for an hour to keep the electrolytics ok , don't know if he followed my advice , i should have done the electrolytics to be sure but that was back in the days when i'd only replace electrolytics that were bad , now i don't bother i just do them all to save future headaches , i may have had one that i didn't do them all and faced a problem , i know a friend got one that was restored a 9-t-246 that had a vertical issue , while running it testing voltages the picture started to go darker and darker till it went black and i scratched my head and wondered what happened , i checked the cans and one was hot , that was the cause , this set was used a lot about 10 years previous but sat unused for a long time , perhaps the one who restored it reformed the electros or they were good enough when restored but that one went sour after siting for a long period of time.
mike
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