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...so this evening was about cutting out sticky ooey-gooey (probably chewy) wax-paper capacitors and replacing them with Orange Drops. Pictured is 23 of 29 caps replaced. The four big ones remaining are .25mFd@400V which I didn't have in stock -- to be ordered soon, with electrolytic order already planned. Two more wax caps are not plainly in sight in the photo. Looking forward to getting the new Orange Drops, to put the messy job behind me. Mouser.com usually delivers 2nd-day, I'll make the order up probably tomorrow (after I inventory the remaining electrolytics). There are two electolytics in the photo (leftmost, bottomish black one, and topmost, lefmost end-view). I don't have those on hand either (20mFd@150V). Then of course the multi-section cans on top. Those should be an interesting topic, for another day...
The set has an unusual Hi-Voltage cage interlock -- when the cage cover is bolted into place, a sheet-metal tab fits thru a slot in the chassis and rests up against a spring-loaded toggle switch in series with the main power switch. No cabinet-back interlock like we're used to seeing -- I guess Magnavox at the time figured the "low Voltage" side was safe enough. The rest of the chassis is ready to rock, no cheater-cord required.
As you can see, I replaced the two "line filter" caps with equivalent orange drops as well. The 500-Ohm short went away -- no more hot chassis!
More later. -k
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