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It is a bit harder to get them soldered but it can be done. 50V caps are much easier to find.

I got in a Moseley PCL 606 STL transmitter that was way low on power. Sometimes this is caused by the SL560C RF amplifier losing its ability to amplify. It is much like the degradation of the MAR-4 in a Moseley 6000 series transmitter. The problem here is that the TO99 can version of the […]

I found this shoe hanger on the side of the road, unopened and complete. Seems to be a good way to sort my plethora of cables. Found some I didn’t know I had. One of many messes cleaned up. Yay!

A while ago I fixed a DOD electronic crossover by repairing a pot that fell apart. I got the thing back a few days ago and found that 3 more of the total of 6 100K pots had fallen apart the same way. The wiper just came off and fell out the bottom. I replaced […]

This thing took me forever to repair. Firstly finding a manual for this thing was next to impossible. I finally spied a picture of one on an old forum and luckily got hold of the person that had posted it. He graciously sent me the manual that allowed me to repair it and the radio […]

I have taken apart a few 9 volt batteries in my day but never a Duracell. They are made a little different it seems. They are divided into 6 flat packs of 1.5 Volts each for 9 Volts. All the other 9 Volt batteries I have seen were full of little tube style batteries that […]