When replacing can capacitors, investigate Tom, N0JMY's business, Hayseed
Hamfest ( www.hayseedhamfest.com ). Tom is making can capacitors and
complete "kits" if you prefer for many vintage rigs now. Nice product and
decent pricing. No financial interest, just supporting those helping us
kee
Terry et al,
I hesitated to reply due to the fact that I am no expert and I wanted to see
what others had to say to your questions. I've got to say, Jim hits the nail on
the head -- squarely. I have wrestled with keeping it original vs. going for
performance (I have an R-4C and T-4XC) and have
Hi Terry,
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:15:33 -0400, Terry Maurice wrote:
>Being new to vintage Drake equipment I have several questions
You'll probably get as many different answers as there are hams on this list.
:)
>In a restoration does one attempt to return everything to factory
>specifications,
Being new to vintage Drake equipment I have several questions regarding
what is "acceptable" and not acceptable with respect to restoration and
or upgrading.
In a restoration does one attempt to return everything to factory
specifications, allowing of course for modern replacements of electron
I purchased a 1-A several years ago (probably in the late 90's), and
overall it is one of my favorite "collectible" radios. It worked
reasonably well -- seemingly -- so until yesterday I had actually
never even bothered to take it out of the cabinet. Just used it
casually as an applianc
The other day I turned on my T-4XB and all of a sudden smoke stared coming out
of the rig. Got the power off in a hurry and found out resistor R61 had fried.
Found the reason to be an arc over from the center ring to bandswitdh shaft on
switch S4a
(first on from the front panel). The arc was a l
I have a Drake T-4 Reciter just back from a Drake rebuilder, all new
electrolytic's (sp?), driver and finals. On a 1-10 scale it is an 8. Also
have a rebuilt power supply and a rebuilt R-4 receiver. IF you have a
GENUINE interest, please e-mail me direct and I will tell all that was done
in the
I bought my first Drake 2B in 1961, but like a dummy, sold it in about 1968 and
regretted it until I was able to purchase a very nice replacement a couple of
weeks ago. The replacement works well, but I am trying to determine how
effective the NOISE LIMITER should be. I notice no difference in
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