Motorola 14P3 restoration

[bandersen]

The smaller one is a 2W fusible resistor. It's made out of ceramic and is designed to take the heat. After a while though, I discovered that the solder was melting!
Probably should use a high temp solder like silver solder.

It's drawing about 400ma so I figure that little 4.7 ohm resistor is putting out less than 1 W.

I decided to just use one of those old 7.5 ohm globar fuse resistors and locate the diode near where the older selenium rectifier had been.

[snelson903]

is normal for that to run that hot that it would start to melt the solder ,i think it would burn out before that you know ,i like how they named that resister [ glo-bar ] i have seen them after they have been hot and darken the outside in older stuff , i hope they dont glo before they blow l o l