Starting on another RCA Portable

[Eric H]

When it's a Capacitor it's a huge difference!

I finished recapping this on Friday and powered it up, surprisingly it worked right out of the gate, but the vertical height and linearity were a mess.

I could get a halfway decent picture with the height control cranked fully counter clockwise and the linearity adjusted as good as it would get, which wasn't very good at all.

I've spent several hours today replacing out of spec resistors (only one was really far out at 900k instead of 680k), checking controls, re-replacing some NOS Orange drops thinking maybe they were bad, after doing that I could barely get the vertical to lock at all and the linearity was no better at all.

Well it finally dawned on me just a bit ago that I had installed a .39 cap where a .039 was supposed to go, off by a factor of ten! lucky it worked at all.

After putting the right cap in the vertical dialed right in.

I suppose the size of this .39 should have been a clue but the original was about the same size, of course caps have gotten a lot smaller in the last 57 years. The second picture shows the .39 directly above the correct .039 installed in the chassis.

[kvflyer]

What can I say, it just looks great, congratulations.