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Old 01-09-2012, 07:27 PM
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Making progress with the electronic restoration now. I've got the first capacitor rebuilt. I used the tutorial posted in the tv and radio tech forum. I bent the bottom crimp up with a small flat blade screwdriver and popped the mounting ring out.

Then I pulled the disk holding the terminals off of the rest of the can. In the process of pulling it off the paper cover on the can also came off, leaving me with four pieces.

I then aranged the new electrolytic capacitors in a way that would fit inside the old can. I soldered the leads to the old terminals paying attention to make sure the values went to the corresponding terminals as they did originally.

The whole process was definitely time consuming and at times frustrating, but well worth the effort.
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