This one tested my patience. The 1X2 was removed of course. Still was an ordeal. The bumblebee that came out tested bad, so it had to be done.

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=93267&d=1212276534

Your work looks very good. Great to see where people take pride in restoring
their sets so they work well and look good inside too.

That's a fine example of knothole surgery. :thmbsp:

Wow, it's tight in there!

Very nice!

Good work. I have a couple of radios with the odd cap that was so buried, I had to remove multiple components to gain access.

In cases where the tiniest snipper wouldn't fit, I have used an X-acto tool with a little razor saw to cut the old leads, and a forceps to work the old cap out of its burrow. At some hobby store, I also found a soldering iron that's thinner and longer than most. Fairly low wattage, but useful in these cases.

Some times an orange drop is too chubby to fit in the old space. The "little yellow" capacitors work just as well and are much smaller.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

That senario is probably the #1 thing that keeps me from restoring my dads 2 zenith trans oceanic radios...

I lack the tools and the steady hand it takes to perform that tight area kind of surgery...

Steve