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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Those yellow chinese caps are great parts IMO I've been using them for close to 15 years and none of my early radio projects (which I've been into longer) have had a single problem related to those caps. As long as your not enough of a clod to melt the plastic with your iron, or subject them to more than their ratings they are light years ahead of the wax papers in something like a CT-100.
I personally like restored sets. Most work, especially by those who do TVs, is as neat as factory. Also on large projects I tend to hit burnout. If I had to restore a CT-100 I'd probably get burned out bad enough getting it to work watchably well, and sit on it that way until repair became necessary or I got back motivation. Something that has been pre-restored I can focus on that energy getting absolutely perfect. Also sets that complex require regular maintenance so you'll inevitably get 'under the hood' at some point.
I like to restuff caps on sets that I feel are worth the effort, and personally I see no reason why anyone would care about the wax/foil roll still being inside. If someone wants to learn about what made wax caps tick I'm sure they will be able to find those caps loose many decades from now.....Hell I've got about a shopping bags worth that I've saved from sets I've worked on.
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I finally got my order through Capacitor World and I really like the caps, they are selling. The film type are the Brown drop type and the electros are the radial lead type, ideal for can-restuffing. I'm going to restuff the can electrolytics on my 621TS, as it makes for a lot neater job.
I, like Tom C never had any trouble with the yellow caps, but I feel, the appearence of my restoration on the old RCA, will look better with the browndrops. I'm not going to restuff the papers. That's a little radical.
