Threaded Multi Can Caps Sources
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ogodei
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Go to Catalogue, Capacitors, 2) high Voltage. There's twin 50s in there somewhere.
Edit: looks like the product number is 96050
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Lavane
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I was looking for some single threaded caps for one of my son's guitar amps that was built in Russia. I wound up boring out the cap hole to use standard radial caps. I couldn't see buying NOS electrolytic caps from the early 80's. I drilled holes to mount some cap clamps too.
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Thanks they do have accurate replacements, but sadly tariffs, etc preclude them from selling to the US at the moment.
I thought about this as well, but the old caps aren't big enough to fit new radials in.
Some old Bogens use these as well. Actually I really liked them and hated swapping them out with clamp styles but like you said the only ones I could find were some old oil filled NOS units and I have no way to verfiy that they were still good.
Could you parallel F&T or Sprague ATOM axials, and bypass the OEM ones — under the hood?
Kinda like what this guy did?
Thanks!
Lavane
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That's a thought if there is room underneath. When I restored that guitar amp, I had seen a few pictures where someone had mounted axial caps on a piece of perforated project board on stand offs. I just didn't like how that looked. The caps I used were pretty small really. They were shorter, and a smaller diameter than the originals. The smallest ones had a diameter of 20mm, the bigger ones were 25mm.
Being the OP's are multi section caps, axial caps underneath may be a better way to go though.
That way, you can keep the bypassed original cap cans in place. No drilling extra holes.
Axial caps I replaced in an old Gibson amp. Tie wrap and stays under the caps.
ogodei
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Well cr*p! And I have a bunch of rebuilds coming up
Going to have to reach out to European AKers.
Yes my 1st thought was restuffing them but the cans are farily small diameter, not sure I could get 2 58uf 400v radials in there. I think you’ll also see the issue with running them under the chassis, simply very little room. Klemt’s are known for the challenges they present when repairing. Luckily they used almost all Eros caps so most components are still at listed value. Pots drifted up from 1M to 1.7M thought.
