CTC-5 Wingate Resto Thread

[miniman82]

I'm young compared to the forum sages, they hold the wisdom I don't have but I make up for that with motivation.


Recapping has begun! Ended up making a Mouser order to the tune of around $70, and that's just the poly caps. I ran out of common ones I already had on hand, so things are at a stand still till UPS stops by. Still need 'lytics as well, but I want to exhaust my existing stock before making another order. Meantime, there's still plenty of chassis cleaning left to do...

For now all I've done is pull the HV cage, so I could get the HV cup out and scrub the bejeezus out of it. They are always disgusting, and this one was no exception. Finished checking the rest of the tubes, turns out the vertical failure was due to a 6AQ5 with only enough emission to budge the needle off it's stop. The rest of the tubes test good, but I'll still try to get as many RCA ones as possible into it.