Well this old girl came right to life, 35 or 40 years of dust cooking off, tubes glowing familiarly, warmly. It sounds pretty damn good. I just think it’s odd that when i enter the model number into the Google machine nothing comes up.
Bob R Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 12, 2020, at 6:21 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > It's usually the old, dried up electrolytic capacitors, and they are easy > to see - the bottom is usually pushed out. IIRC, you have replaced those in > MB boards - the big old console will be easier to work on. > >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:03 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I need to find some vintage radio repair guy I guess, not something I’m >> going to tackle. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Oct 12, 2020, at 7:55 PM, Jim Cathey <jim.cathey...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> [I] do not know anything about replacing transistors >>> >>> It has to be done carefully, else your replacements pop just like the >> originals did. >>> Bringing them up slowly on a Variac and probing carefully around the >> circuitry to >>> keep an eye on things along the way is often a very good thing. Check >> the capacitors >>> first, it's likely that some other circuit component failed first and >> the rest all went in >>> a cascade. >>> >>>>> i suppose contact cleaner is in order? >>> >>> Yes. I swear by Caig De-Ox-It. >>> >>> -- Jim >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
