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Sideband · 20th Nov 2018, 9:40 pm

Generally those red/black/yellow Plessy caps are well past their best by now and regarded as change on sight (bit like Hunts waxies). As an example I am currently restoring a Bush TR82 from 1963. The Plessey caps in that were all poor (an ESR meter confirmed it). One was almost O/C, the others were in varying degrees of low capacitance/leaky/high ESR. Changing them produced a marked improvement.

20th Nov 2018, 9:40 pm	#4
Sideband Dekatron Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Croydon, Surrey, UK. Posts: 7,580	Re: "Demon" transistor radio Generally those red/black/yellow Plessy caps are well past their best by now and regarded as change on sight (bit like Hunts waxies). As an example I am currently restoring a Bush TR82 from 1963. The Plessey caps in that were all poor (an ESR meter confirmed it). One was almost O/C, the others were in varying degrees of low capacitance/leaky/high ESR. Changing them produced a marked improvement. __________________ There are lots of brilliant keyboard players and then there is Rick Wakeman..... Last edited by Sideband; 20th Nov 2018 at 9:48 pm.