Meck XB-702 restoration

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by bandersen

...However, all the caps look like hell.

They are all either made by the Industrial Condenser Corp or Chicago Condenser Corp which is still in business today.
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Which leads to another mystery. The four HC deflection coupling caps have clearly been replaced. They are wired with clunky "j-hooks". However, they appear to be as old as all the other caps and are also made by CCC.

Could they have failed shortly after the set was sold and replaced under warranty by Meck ?

Bob, I would think that that is a good chance. Thanks for the updates.

[vortalexfan]

I believe my Meck TV which had many of the original caps in it yet had mostly Chicago Condenser Corporation Capacitors in it, I believe they were a very common supplier of components to a lot of Midwestern electronics manufacturers in the 1940s-1960s in fact my 2 Zenith TVs I'm currently working on also had Chicago Condenser Corporation Capacitors in it as well (specifically my "Bugeye" TV, I also had a ton of those in my Zenith Bugeye clock radio and also in my Zenith 10S690 (which has long since been scrapped because I couldn't fix the turntable drawer because I couldn't find any drawer glides that would fit the turntable drawer properly.)