[DaveWM]

just shoot us some pics as you go, its fun to follow along.

One other tip, when I remove the cap completly from the term, I stick the new cap lead right into the term right away, that way if the phone rings or some other distraction comes along you will know where it goes.

I do the tooth pick thing too, solder will not stick to it.

watch out for diodes (germainum esp) that share the strip, use a heat sink to protect them from heat transmitted along the lead, and leave the heat sink attached until the term strip has cooled after soldered.

If taking out a cap completly I will test resistors since I am cleaning out all the solder to remove the old part. I also use heat sinks on carbon comp resistors and disk caps, again no reason to dump massiive amount of heat thru the leads.

Take your time, hopefully you will only be doing each cap only once, so you may as well do a very nice job of it. I don't do this to make money so no hurry. put on some nice relaxing music and enjoy the hobby.


one time I got carried away with the process. I decided that I would completely remove the old part from the term strip, and while at it if I had to do that I would replace any other part that shared that term. Well that turned into a daisy chain event (as each part that was replaced had a lead that went to another term, sort of a chain reaction).

I was careful not to replace caps that were part of a tuned circuit but everything else got the treatment. This was not needed of course but I was really just trying to develop my skill set.

The result was positive, its my kenwood receiver, which is really my best sound audio set. Did I replace parts I did not need to.. YES but its my stereo and it does sound fantastic.