47 Modern components?...
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This article is from the Antique Radios And Phonographs FAQ, by Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom with numerous contributions by others.
47 Modern components?...
... But if I put modern components like mylar
capacitors in the set, it won't be "original" any more.
There is a wide range of opinion about use of modern resistors,
capacitors, and wire in an old radio. Some feel that disguising modern
components in the shells of old wax paper capacitors is important. There
are (at least so far as your FAQ editor knows) no clear-cut guidelines
on the "looks" of components installed under a radio chassis. Consensus
seems to agree that all items that are visible when the chassis is
bolted in place should "look like the original radio did."
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