16-05-2017, 08:05 AM
I admit to usually changing all waxies and Hunts caps. in vintage radios, etc., including a VHF61 and a DAC10, both a few years ago. Neither was particularly easy to work on, the narrow, deep chassis in the 61 made components awkward to get at, whilst the preset button mechanism in the '10 didn't help accessibility, either, although most of the circuitry is on a tagstrip assembly, IIRC. That was the reason, ironically perhaps, why I did a full recap, and also changed some out of spec resistors on these two sets. Maybe having 40 years experience working on radios of all sorts helped, but I still proceeded with caution, and was rewarded with two good working radios afterwards.
