My CTC-16XL Project.

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Originally Posted by dtvmcdonald

Its a curse. Any rare or valuable TV is very stressful to work on. My blood pressure rises from 120/75 to 148/95 until its fixed. This is by actual measurement. This does not usually happen on radios, though it did happen once when I discovered that the RA17C12 I bought had had all the paper and electrolytic caps already cut out, and the harness cut. This of course ruins my
usual method of avoiding a miswired new cap. [Addendum: well, not ALL of them ... the hard to get at ones were still there.]

It only stresses me if 1.) it drops me down to 1 or less working sets in a main viewing room, 2.) if I'm in the middle handling something super-delicate like reattaching a hair-thin coil lead, or 3.) I have a couple of sets disassembled/mid resto that I gotta finish and or reassemble fast to reorganize for something (which I'm sorta dealing with now).
If I let it bug me that bad the number of such sets I have now would raise my blood pressure high enough for my head to shoot off.


Strange that that panasonic cap didn't work...Did you check resistance across it? maybe you got a shorted factory dud or something.