hemiram
Active Member
If anyone can help me, thanks..
So I bought this SA-500 off Ebay. It works pretty much perfect, except it had a noisy tuning cap. Only one dial light worked. I bought a bunch of the LED 6v replacements, and took the unit to work with me so I could give it a general clean up. With just a damp rag, it looks pretty good on the outside, the knobs were just about perfect once the crud was off them. I think it looks great! The first rag I used looks horrible, just from cleaning up the outside.
I took the bottom cover off and checked the filter cap leads to see what to order, and the two 10,000 uF 50v caps have conventional leads about an inch apart.
I don't see anything that's a direct fit. Does anyone know if there is a direct replacement somewhere? When I look, I see ones the same size and value with either "snap in" leads or lugs. The pic above is after some cleaning, it's really nasty inside. I wiped off the top of the transformer and heat sink. And now for the problem. Before I started the cleaning, the one dial light bulb worked but now, I have no lights at all. Voltmeter shows no voltage on the dial lights now. Is there a fuse on them I'm not seeing?
The receiver works 100% now, I used Deoxit on the tuning cap and took a brush and cleaned the fuzz out of the plates and the lower freqs are crunch free now. Other than some of the silver coming off the switches and some stuff behind the dial glass/plastic, it's looking really good now. I like the knobs. I was disappointed to find out the switches are plastic. A couple of them have white spots where the silver has worn off.
So I bought this SA-500 off Ebay. It works pretty much perfect, except it had a noisy tuning cap. Only one dial light worked. I bought a bunch of the LED 6v replacements, and took the unit to work with me so I could give it a general clean up. With just a damp rag, it looks pretty good on the outside, the knobs were just about perfect once the crud was off them. I think it looks great! The first rag I used looks horrible, just from cleaning up the outside.
I took the bottom cover off and checked the filter cap leads to see what to order, and the two 10,000 uF 50v caps have conventional leads about an inch apart.
I don't see anything that's a direct fit. Does anyone know if there is a direct replacement somewhere? When I look, I see ones the same size and value with either "snap in" leads or lugs. The pic above is after some cleaning, it's really nasty inside. I wiped off the top of the transformer and heat sink. And now for the problem. Before I started the cleaning, the one dial light bulb worked but now, I have no lights at all. Voltmeter shows no voltage on the dial lights now. Is there a fuse on them I'm not seeing?
The receiver works 100% now, I used Deoxit on the tuning cap and took a brush and cleaned the fuzz out of the plates and the lower freqs are crunch free now. Other than some of the silver coming off the switches and some stuff behind the dial glass/plastic, it's looking really good now. I like the knobs. I was disappointed to find out the switches are plastic. A couple of them have white spots where the silver has worn off.