Restoration Commences on 1947 RCA Victor 721TCS

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Originally Posted by AlanInSitges

I don't get why everyone is giving OP so much grief. He's doing an experiment, it seems to be working so far, and if later that turns out not to be the case, well, lesson learned, it's a hobby and he enjoys it so...what's the big deal?

I learned something about what it means to reform electrolytics in this thread.

Hi Alan ,

I am someone , and as such , I am part of the "everyone" who has posted to this thread , and I for one have been totally supportive of his experiment .

As has been well established every case is different with regards to how well the "luck of the draw" has treated old caps and yes there are going to be the ones who reform and live on to perform their cap duties just as there will be ones that will crash & burn as in the photo* I posted in my first post to the thread . I do not believe I was giving him grief when I stated that as a fun experiment sure , I'm right with him and want to see him get 100s of hours out of his reformed caps , but my personal preference especially with daily drivers is to replace all Ecaps as a precursor to the return to daily service .


* I lifted that photo from someone's Ebay listing for an old 1960s guitar amp that was listed as "working perfectly" , and have no relation/involvement in the rectifier flambe depicted there .......