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Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Making repro 1930s style can electros
Sideband's post about restoring the Philips radio reminded me of this idea. I'm not sure if anyone on the other side of the globe will find it useful but here goes.
1930s radios usually had "wet" can electros, which of course dried up many years ago and were replaced. I thought it would be nice to be able to fill the empty holes in chassis where the old cans had been removed. Here is how I went about it:
You will need, for each electro:
1. A can of Berocca or similar effervescent vitamins. This is an aluminium can about the same size as the can electro, a bit slimmer perhaps. Use paint stripper to remove the label so you have a natural aluminium finish.
2. A bolt with 2 matching nuts. The bolt head needs to be an interference fit into the Berocca can.
3. Two nails and a plastic masonry plug.
4. The new electro to go in the can.
Drill two holes in the bolt, one down the middle to take the masonry plug and one to suit the nail.
Solder the nail into the bolt head, using a gas flame - it will take a lot of heating.
Press the masonry plug in and insert the 2nd nail through it to make a solid assembly.
Solder the electro to the nails and glue the can in place over the assembly using construction adhesive or similar.
Laser print a convincing repro label onto clear adhesive film and attach it to the can.
Et voila!
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