AR88 Bath Tub (Aerovox) Capacitors.

[shortwaverx]

I opened up, one of the above, this morning and found this:

[shortwaverx]

My in-elegant and temporary solution was to fit a tag strip, as shown below. I think it would be better to fit the capacitors individually, in the circuit locations where the connection wires run to. This will minimise the lenght of the leads. I am not fussy about originality, I just want to make this receiver as reliable as possible.

[G6Tanuki]

That's pretty much the way I've done it on my 88D too, though I used a piece of what's usually called "turret board" to replace each bathtub

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turret_board

[sentinel040]

I had to do mine a few years ago after the (rather nasty) oil started to leak past the seals and produce an oil slick along the bottom edge of the case...

Not because of any wish to retain originality or anything like that but more because at the time it seemed easier, I put new capacitors inside the original tubs. Perhaps if I had had some tag strip knocking around at the time i might have adopted a similar approach to you.

Next job at some point is to replace the Micamolds before they decide to make a nuisance of themselves and fin out why on setting 2 the selectivity seems a bit odd. There never a dull moment!

Regards

(Another) Ian

[Station X]

I restuffed mine too and dispensed with the back covers.

[Aub]

When mine leaked, it reminded me of Hermatite gasket sealer, and I read somewhere, afterwards, that it could be carcinogenic. Too late for me if it was.

Aub

[shortwaverx]

Hi Aub,

The red colour is caused by the terminal sealant degrading as the oil leaks out of the capacitor.
I believe that the oil may be PCB based, so I wore nitryl gloves and disposed of everything in our hazardous materials bin at work.