Yikes looks like I am entering back into the fold --- after a long sabbatical, LOL I have returned to speak about "capacitor leakage"
While most of us think of leakage as a physical thing, also remember the "other leakage" uhh electronically.
THAT SAID....
My 2505 (beautifully restored by Terry DeWick, many years ago) I feel so fortunate to have had that amp in his hands ... has sounded awesome and been powered on for at least a constant ~10 years-- used daily.
So I pull it down to polish the chassis, every couple of years, and was looking into replacement filter caps -- yea the big ones -- upon further inspection I found one of the caps had physically puked some of its nastiness onto my purdy minty beautiful chrome chassis..... Yes ~ corrosion had ensued ... fortunately I caught it in time that you would not see it if I had new filter caps ... blah blah blah ----
Terry did a wonderful job and the caps did not warrant replacement years ago === unfortunately life got in the way and upon finding this mess under one cap I was about sick.... As I had just bought a new Faceplate from Mc Labs and was getting ready to do the detail thing.
Seeing all of these funky replaceemnt caps and "drillling into the chassis to accomodate the new caps". was BS to me -- and the old ass Aero or whatever replacements---- yech... Yea I could have stuffed the old caps like I did in my beater C26 but not for this amp!
Mc Labs provided me with the proper replacement filter caps (9300 to 15k I think) woohoo ! -- although blue (some complain,not me) / and a chunk of change.
I am on my way to pristine (almost) once again.
Imagine support from the factory for a 1970's amp.... HEROS ~ awesome help and support.
LED's in my 2505 --- no WAY!
bought all the incandescents for the amp and a couple other pretties for it ... now to get to work. anxious to hear the results.
Huge Kudos to the Mc parts guys --- THE BEST!!
Maybe some pics, but life's pretty rough right now, so....
***A bit of scratchiness on the Power switch and gain controls so I figure some Cailube is in order --
Guys -if I am wrong please steer me in the correct direction.on the switches / chemicals.***
TheTechnics RS1500 and Pioneer RT707 are next .... LOL gonna buy a HAKKO desolder gun for those ...
Yeesh, prices sure have changed, and maybe some of you guys remember me ...
~Richard
While most of us think of leakage as a physical thing, also remember the "other leakage" uhh electronically.
THAT SAID....
My 2505 (beautifully restored by Terry DeWick, many years ago) I feel so fortunate to have had that amp in his hands ... has sounded awesome and been powered on for at least a constant ~10 years-- used daily.
So I pull it down to polish the chassis, every couple of years, and was looking into replacement filter caps -- yea the big ones -- upon further inspection I found one of the caps had physically puked some of its nastiness onto my purdy minty beautiful chrome chassis..... Yes ~ corrosion had ensued ... fortunately I caught it in time that you would not see it if I had new filter caps ... blah blah blah ----
Terry did a wonderful job and the caps did not warrant replacement years ago === unfortunately life got in the way and upon finding this mess under one cap I was about sick.... As I had just bought a new Faceplate from Mc Labs and was getting ready to do the detail thing.
Seeing all of these funky replaceemnt caps and "drillling into the chassis to accomodate the new caps". was BS to me -- and the old ass Aero or whatever replacements---- yech... Yea I could have stuffed the old caps like I did in my beater C26 but not for this amp!
Mc Labs provided me with the proper replacement filter caps (9300 to 15k I think) woohoo ! -- although blue (some complain,not me) / and a chunk of change.
I am on my way to pristine (almost) once again.
Imagine support from the factory for a 1970's amp.... HEROS ~ awesome help and support.
LED's in my 2505 --- no WAY!
bought all the incandescents for the amp and a couple other pretties for it ... now to get to work. anxious to hear the results.
Huge Kudos to the Mc parts guys --- THE BEST!!
Maybe some pics, but life's pretty rough right now, so....
***A bit of scratchiness on the Power switch and gain controls so I figure some Cailube is in order --
Guys -if I am wrong please steer me in the correct direction.on the switches / chemicals.***
TheTechnics RS1500 and Pioneer RT707 are next .... LOL gonna buy a HAKKO desolder gun for those ...
Yeesh, prices sure have changed, and maybe some of you guys remember me ...
~Richard
