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Old 6th Sep 2021, 4:02 pm   #7
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Default Re: Radio Rentals model 62 (1948)

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Originally Posted by thermionic View Post
those boxed electrolytics are so unique,
Absolutely - very rare and unusual with the RR branding on them too!

I would have left them in place and, if definitely faulty, I would have disconnected them from the circuit electrically and used external replacements - like they would have probably done in an 'old time' radio repair workshop where they wouldn't have bothered to remove the originals. Wax will always be leaking out of those types due to warming over time and isn't necessarily a sign of any electrical leakage, although I would suspect that those particular capacitors were probably not in a good state and may have been generating their own warming and replacement was likely needed anyway.

It's a good looking set - any pictures of the underside of the chassis with those square capacitors still in place?
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