Comments on: Antique radio smoking, what could be the problem? http://antiquerecordplayers.info/antique-radio-smoking-what-could-be-the-problem.htm Sun, 20 May 2012 04:06:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Bolide ⌡shinning bacon of hope...⌠ http://antiquerecordplayers.info/antique-radio-smoking-what-could-be-the-problem.htm/comment-page-1#comment-47356 Bolide ⌡shinning bacon of hope...⌠ Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:57:10 +0000 http://antiquerecordplayers.info/antique-radio-smoking-what-could-be-the-problem.htm#comment-47356 You're right about dust and debris, the other usual suspect will be capacitors, particularly the large filter capacitors for the power supply. Don't know if your unit has any electroltic caps, which were rather dodgy in that era (some were rather dangerous in fact in that time frame), or paper-in-oil, which do not age well either, but you should contact an electronic guru for a re-cap, and a safety check for your power supply (many electronic devices of that era had a 50/50 chance of having a "Hot" chassis everytime you plugged them in, meaning you could expose yourself to lethal voltage just by touching any metal part that was connected to the chassis). You’re right about dust and debris, the other usual suspect will be capacitors, particularly the large filter capacitors for the power supply.

Don’t know if your unit has any electroltic caps, which were rather dodgy in that era (some were rather dangerous in fact in that time frame), or paper-in-oil, which do not age well either, but you should contact an electronic guru for a re-cap, and a safety check for your power supply (many electronic devices of that era had a 50/50 chance of having a "Hot" chassis everytime you plugged them in, meaning you could expose yourself to lethal voltage just by touching any metal part that was connected to the chassis).

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