Starting a Restoration on a 1951 RCA 7T111B

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Originally Posted by Aperna1985

Tom I watched your video, I'm actually a big fan of you and Shango. I have a C3 also. I see you didn't unsolder one end before testing for leakage. Did you remove the tubes or anything before checking for leakage?

It probably looked like I didn't unsolder one leg of each cap because of editing (waiting 10+ seconds for each solder joint would probably bore a good part of the audience), but I did unsolder 1 leg of each cap before testing...I did notice if I left the TV chassis plugged into the variac the lead of the cap still connected would leak back to the C3 through the line cord and give some false leakage indication. So I was doing the cheeter cord hokey pokey each time I tested a cap. That line cord leakage was interesting to discover.

Thanks, for watching my videos!