[HAM] Recapping

[kai lammervo]

      I saw lately a M3 with TG that had mostly those red styrene caps, but also few older "cardboard" caps. I wonder how common this is?
   
  Last summer I was servicing an A-100 that had red styrene caps, but no R/C networks! That was a 50hz unit, but the guy had also a 60hz A-100 which had red styrene caps and no R/C networks either. Amazing coincidence. Even if that wasn´t enough, they sounded like night and day, totally different!
   
  I´m assuming there might have been some period when there were organs with earlier resonant circuits equipped with styrene caps, and also later ones without R/C networks.
  Thus far I have only seen these types of capacitors on a 1937 BC organ ,
but Scott has seen them on 1964 organs so therefore I suspect that
Hammond used them indiscriminately depending on what batches were
available at the time of their bulk purchase ordering from the various
vendors. 


       
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