Admiral 20X11 restoration

[Phil Nelson]

Speaking of Solar cap analyzers, guess what I ran across when straightening up my shop last week?



Let me know if you think it works well enough to be worth restoring. I doubt I would use it a bunch -- my attitude toward 60-year old electrolytics is that they all deserve to die the true death -- but anything with an eye tube warms my heart and I hate to have non-working things piled all over the place.

Phil Nelson
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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

...Let me know if you think it works well enough to be worth restoring. ...

Absolutely! I mostly use it to test mica caps. It's nice to know if the originals are really bad before trying to try down replacements with oddball values.

I think this is the first time I ever bothered to test electrolytics. It was interesting to see how much better new caps test compared to vintage ones.

[Phil Nelson]

Micas, OK -- I will give it a whirl. Just found a decent 20-page manual online, too.

Nice job on the TV, by the way. My first Admiral is still languishing in the back row, but I'll get to it some time before next summer.

Phil Nelson

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Micas, OK -- I will give it a whirl. Just found a decent 20-page manual online, too.

Nice job on the TV, by the way. My first Admiral is still languishing in the back row, but I'll get to it some time before next summer.

Phil Nelson

Could you please link that manual. I'd love to read some info on it to get me fired up enough to fix mine.

Tom C.

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Could you please link that manual. I'd love to read some info on it to get me fired up enough to fix mine.

Tom C.

I've created a new Solar CB-1-60 thread in the test equipment forum.

You'll find a link to the manual and parts list there.