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Originally Posted by holmesuser01
Hope there's room for the new capacitors. There's plenty of room under the hood on the DuMont, so I used regular radial lead capacitors and anchored them in place.
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There's a ton of room to route caps under the chassis of this set.
SwizzyMan, you do good work, but there are no shortcuts on something like this. On a 1940s/early 50s set, you *have* to start by recapping the whole thing, then work from there. Even if for some reason the old wax caps and cans are good, the chances of the set being a reliable performer are close to zero....let alone the damage that might be caused.
At this point in the set's life, you are doing something the engineers never designed the set to do....operate after 60 plus years. You have to throw the diagnosis and repair paradigm out the window until after all the caps of every style are replaced (except micas, which are fine about 90% of the time). I usually replace all resistors with a value of 5 watts and over, as well, before the first power up.