Post by 6A8G. on Jul 1, 2019 10:31:39 GMT 12
... & came across an American gentleman who hosts the D-Lab guitar amp channel & he does the occasional radio too.
When it comes to replacing can-type capacitors he uses an IO socket, drills down through the pins, mounts radial capacitors to the valve side of the socket then terminates the leads in the socket tags. In the video I saw he used three HT filter caps in triangle formation. If you wanted to get inventive, a smaller cap as suitable for cathode bypass could be mounted atop the structure - after all you do have eight lugs with which to play. This also gives you tie points to which you can connect the branches of the HT line.
My only gripe with this is the use of heat shrink to stop the caps flopping around - very necessary but hardly the vintage look. I think this needs investigating further - anyone got any bright ideas to manufacture new can?
Also, IO sockets do tend to fit the hole out of which a can cap has been removed.
Best,
Johnš
When it comes to replacing can-type capacitors he uses an IO socket, drills down through the pins, mounts radial capacitors to the valve side of the socket then terminates the leads in the socket tags. In the video I saw he used three HT filter caps in triangle formation. If you wanted to get inventive, a smaller cap as suitable for cathode bypass could be mounted atop the structure - after all you do have eight lugs with which to play. This also gives you tie points to which you can connect the branches of the HT line.
My only gripe with this is the use of heat shrink to stop the caps flopping around - very necessary but hardly the vintage look. I think this needs investigating further - anyone got any bright ideas to manufacture new can?
Also, IO sockets do tend to fit the hole out of which a can cap has been removed.
Best,
Johnš
