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Old 8th Nov 2020, 9:56 pm   #35
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Default Re: R1155 Modern Power Supply

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Originally Posted by Uncle Bulgaria View Post
It's an interesting general point.

In radio terms, the former is the restoration to original spec., and the latter is the 'use radio chassis as lamp' crowd. I like something in between, as I'm not a museum, but I approach the projects as I'd approach a building. Keep the good bits and make sure it's useful and joyous for the current generation, without destroying what made it good in the first place.
I like to aim somewhere in between, too- I think it's fair enough to say that with something like an R1155, there'll be a good number of original (or near original) condition examples in museums and with privare collectors that no historical crime is being committed by the careful and sympathetic replacement of degraded passive components and acquisition of missing/previously stripped sub-assemblies in order to end up with a properly working example. It can actually be quite satisfying to find out just hiow well vintage gear can work once the good bits- i.e. valves, wound components etc.- are allowed to give of their best with passives that are somewhat better than they were in the day. What I specifically avoid is the drilling/cutting/scarring of original metalwork- indeed, one of the more satisfying and time-consuming parts of an overhaul can be the fabrication of adapter plates so that substitute power connectors, low-impedance output transformers and so on can be added to veteran specialist (aviation-orientated etc.) apparatus in order to make a more demonstrably day-to-day useful and interesting device without making it impossible to restore it to genuine as-was status.
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