On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jump'n Jack Flash wrote:

I am interested in recapping a Heath SB401 and a SB301 but I have several
questions.
1 Do you try to desolder each old cap or do you simple cut out the old ones
and add the new ones?
2. Where is a good place, web or otherwise to purchase new caps?
3. I been told that if the electrolytic are to old they will not polarize
correctly. So how do you know?
Thanks for any and all replies.


FYI, FWIW....

This might sound like I am throwing you a "curve ball" but I'd like to ask
if you are doing this because: i) "its cool" or ii) because neither unit
is working and you are sure the problem is an open or shorted or leaky cap
and you are sure that replacing all of them will bring both units back to
life?

There is a philosophy, which is good, that doing a recap job will surely
make it unnecessary for the next 50 years to recap anything again....

Then there is a philosophy, which is also good, that "don't fix anything
that ain't broken". And, if something is broken, then fix just that (I've
had a lot of dentists urge me to "fix" something that was not broken but
they said could break any day, and I've had those somethings for 30 years)

Then there is a philosophy involving preventive maintenance (this is real
good for flashlights with replaceable batteries, oil changes for cars,
blood tests in the doctor's office, etc, etc.).

I usually go by the second philosophy, but not because I can prove its
better. Its just "my" strategy and approach to life.

Just FYI, FWIW.