[sdiy] multi legged electro caps?

[David Brown]

I restore vintage radios and so deal with this all the time. I have 
never bought the restoration multi-can capacitors as they are really 
expensive.  Also, you're just going to end up replacing them again in 
15+ years.

Personally, unless it's real collectable, I don't worry about 
under-the-chassis adds.  I usually will take a 2 lug terminal strip 
and solder one lug to the capacitor lug.  Then I'll move the wires 
from the capacitor to the other lug and solder a replacement (and 
always much smaller) capacitor under the chassis.  I'll do this for 
each section.  I just finished restoring a 1959 Philco Predicta TV 
and I found a good range of higher voltage electrolytics to do the 
job at Mouser and Digikey.

I also have boxes of NOS multi-section electrolytics and just can't 
see using them.  Some of my restorations are now 30 years old.

Dave


At 01:07 PM 5/1/2007, KA4HJH wrote:
> >I'm sure you know you could DIY manufacture a suitable set of caps out of
> >modern parts as long as you respect the voltage and uF values.