My 11 year old son's Admiral 30A1 restoration project

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Originally Posted by NoPegs

What brand of electrolytics do they normally ship? I've been told Rubycon but also some people have said "not junk but not really great" brands too.

They have great prices on films though, and I don't care about brands as much on them. Plus if they ship from NJ that's probably "overnight" to me by USPS anyway here in Eastern PA.

I'm interested in giving them a try, but I want to hear your respected opinion first!



Turn them loose on your back-log of shelved projects. I'm kind of doing the same thing with my girlfriend. She enjoys soldering and desoldering very much, so I have to have plenty of things to do in that area to keep things enjoyable for her in between the advanced theory portions which aren't so enjoyable for her until things eventually click into place in her head and the light of understanding shines forth.


We can both hope that this isn't just a "fad" for our apprentices. Someone has to keep the thermionic lighthouse warm in the future!

Never had an issue with anything from Capacitor World, and I generally use the snot out of stuff that I restore. Dwight wrote up a review on them a while ago:

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=260962

As I mentioned in the thread, I do my main stock of commons through them, but the specialty stuff I have to get from Mouser. Rumor has it that they'll be stocking 1 kV caps soon, which is a very good thing

And the project backlog is exactly why I wanted to get Nick going on the 730TV2. I'm paying him to do the work....if he can get tubes tested and base recaps done in the sets in the "on-deck circle", that'll save me a TON of time. He's a little wary of trying to do the filter cans by himself, which is fine (I'd rather be involved in that end of it anyway) but having him do the tedium of all the bypass caps gets my thumbs up . He's aware to look for voltages as well, as the 730TV2 has some 1 kV caps in it.