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Nashville Electronics capacitors ?

gtx580

gtx580

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Just curious.... I,m reviving a KLh model 20 turntable and radio and am wondering if anyone has heard of Nashville caps? The power supply and filter caps are Nashvilles and I,ll be replacing them with Nichicons . I havent run into this brand capacitor before and am just curious if they were a popular brand at one time or maybe rebadged caps? The rest of the caps in this unit are unmarked black caps with a few gray ones marked " cemx" . Thanks for any thoughts! Chuck
 
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gtx580 said:
Just curious.... I,m reviving a KLh model 20 turntable and radio and am wondering if anyone has heard of Nashville caps? The power supply and filter caps are Nashvilles and I,ll be replacing them with Nichicons . I havent run into this brand capacitor before and am just curious if they were a popular brand at one time or maybe rebadged caps? The rest of the caps in this unit are unmarked black caps with a few gray ones marked " cemx" . Thanks for any thoughts! Chuck
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Are they the same thing as Richey capacitors?
 
RKW said:
Are they the same thing as Richey capacitors?
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Not sure! The only thing I could find was a few sellers on Ebay selling lots of 10 - 20 vintage Nashville electronics caps . Some were NOS and some were listed as vintage. Not too much out there on these.
 
All the ones I have seen were in old gear from the 60s. They were all axials and most, if not all, were bad in some shape or form. Some were physically cracked and broken. All were off in value.
 
gtx580 said:
Just curious.... I,m reviving a KLh model 20 turntable and radio and am wondering if anyone has heard of Nashville caps? The power supply and filter caps are Nashvilles and I,ll be replacing them with Nichicons . I havent run into this brand capacitor before and am just curious if they were a popular brand at one time or maybe rebadged caps? The rest of the caps in this unit are unmarked black caps with a few gray ones marked " cemx" . Thanks for any thoughts! Chuck
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Can you post a photo of these caps?

Thanks!
 
Found this photo online. I’ve never heard of the Callins capacitor, either. :)


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Thread 'Nashville Electronics Cap Question'

Been a while since I've been here, but I am now retired and trying to fix a Sherwood S 5000 II 80 watt amp. I am hoping someone might be familiar with this cap
It is a multicap, a Nashville Electronics 300mfd 50v cap. I don't fully understand the pinouts. One bare lead was soldered to chassis, the other bare lead to a couple of diodes and a 22 ohm resistor, and the black lead to a 1k resistor, the 1k resistors other end to the bias pot, and blu/wht transformer lead. The cap is bad, the only reading I could make was from the black lead to the bare lead that goes to the diodes and a 22 ohm...
 
DB Cooper tie:

In 2011, new lab tests revealed the tie Cooper's discarded before he jumped contained tiny pieces of Titanium, a rare metal in 1971. A patent from Nashville Electronics reveal it made a small electronic part that contained the extremely pure form of titanium found on Cooper's tie. "That shows you that he is a very rare individual indeed to work in an industry where they worked with titanium and would have had processes that would have produced this particle found in his tie,” said Rollins, an engineer and author from New Hampshire who wrote a book about how Cooper escaped in 2016.
 
RKW said:
DB Cooper tie:

In 2011, new lab tests revealed the tie Cooper's discarded before he jumped contained tiny pieces of Titanium, a rare metal in 1971. A patent from Nashville Electronics reveal it made a small electronic part that contained the extremely pure form of titanium found on Cooper's tie. "That shows you that he is a very rare individual indeed to work in an industry where they worked with titanium and would have had processes that would have produced this particle found in his tie,” said Rollins, an engineer and author from New Hampshire who wrote a book about how Cooper escaped in 2016.
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Very interesting! I guess they couldn't find DB in the list of previous employees.

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rjsalvi said:
If you're gonna replace those caps, you'd be best advised to also replace the carbon composition resistors. They're notorious for changing values over time.
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Yes, the ones in the 50-year-old Heathkit quad amplifier kit I just built were ALL way off.

They absorb moisture and that ruins them.

Luckily, there weren't that many of them as, by that time, Heath was mostly including carbon film resistors with their kits.

Doug
 
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