Recent content by Philomath

Hmm!! I'm getting cold feet with the Cobra. It looks brand new and still had the red manufacturer factory sticker seal in the covers. Most of the caps bar a couple are Rubicon. Me thinks maybe I should leave it alone.

Yes I do.

Now I'm having a bad case of the rits lol. These radios are in pristine, out of the box condition, but old. I plan to leave them completely un-molested, Just the recap. Like I said in the beginning, I'm not a tech, just a tinkerer. but thank you, I will put your recommendations in the vault.

Just when you thought the thread was done, I'm sneaking in again. So I've ordered capacitors from Element14, they have an outlet here in NSW and they were the only ones that had all that I needed. All the caps I ordered are 50v and will fit. I chose Wurth Elektronik for most of the caps and...

I got a bit bored.

Yes, Klondike Mikes stocks good quality components, however as I stated earlier, the exchange rate and postage make it cost prohibitive for me. My estimated check out price came to almost $70.00. AUD. Thank you for your input, best regards, Walt.

Yeah that's a good point. the other thing that I was thinking is that on a mobile radio the longer legs would help absorb some bumps, like a shock absorber rather than being too rigid and cracking solder joints. My radios will likely never go mobile, so I think I'll go with your recommendation...

I see I'm in the right place for advice. Thank you all. I'm interested to know if you guys flush mount the new cap, or leave some leg length sticking up like a factory job? I've always flush mounted cap on my circuit builds.

Thanks for the advice folks. I have a soldering station and a de-soldering station and I've been soldering stuff for 60 years, so fear not my friends. You have essentially answered my question. After farther research I see that the need for specified voltages is a physical size thing to make...

Hi there folks, I hope you are all well. I have a Capacitor question. I'm not a tech, Just a tinkerer. I plan on re-caping my Cobra 148gtl and my Uniden Washington. Upon reading the capacitor list for these radios, I see that the Cobra has around 12x .47uf capacitors with 4 different voltages...

Thanks Robb glad you like it, quite a few hrs of work there, good fun though. I don't own one of those radios yet but Ive found a contact in the US who was kind enough to purchased one on the US ebay on my behalf, and will send it out to me after checking it out. Walt

Oh yeah I just saw the thingy that says upload file. Daah.!!! There are a couple of unknown value as the copy was partially eligible, but I'm sure you'll work it out. Walt

Hi Mike. If you PM me your Email I'll send you a hi res pdf CAD drawing for that radio that I've just finished. if you still want it.