Philips 170A restoration
Hi all
Just acquired this little beauty for 25 quid more or less immaculate had a few replacement parts including a new 3 pin mains input. My only concern there is that the earth strap is connected to the body of the mains tranny. Is this safe?
Also any pointers on replacing the 0.047uf capacitors. Is it worth using PIO or standard 630v polys?
I'm also replacing the electrolytic caps whilst in there.
The output transformer also needs rewiring as the attached wiring is crumbling leaving lots of exposed wire. Are the windings on these soldered straight to the tranny? As opposed to being one continuous length of cable? Only ask as if rewiring I don't want to remove solder only then having to re solder. Although I could re sleeve the wire. Just came to me.
To be fair it works fine bit of crackling and slight hum but think Pots just need cleaning. Picking up stations from all over the world ****** amazing really since I'm only using the foil plate on back plate at present. No external aerial as of yet.
Any info always welcome.
Cheers Chris
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