Zenith 5S119 Antique Radio | P3 How To Replace Wax/Paper Caps

If you’re going to restore old radios, you’re gonna need to replace capacitors. In this video I demonstrate the basics of identifying caps, choosing the correct replacements and good practices for installing them.

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[bobyk]

Holding the breath helps during such surgeries, cause it's easy to damage fragile little old tech. Thanks for the tricks and practical knowledge.

[levibear]

Outstanding video presentation, once again illustrating Mr. Condensers excellent teaching style.

[pags]

Fantastic video for me. Thank you. I'm wanting to teach myself how to restore old radios and capacitor replacement is seems to be key. Only thing I was left concerned about was safety from electric shock. I was wondering how you know when it is safe to dive in to change capacitors and when you need to discharge them prior to removing them?

[jstrano]

I just want to say that this was an amazing tutorial! I just took possession of my Grandmother’s Zenith 5G500. It still works, but I’ve heard that the caps can be an issue. I will definitely be checking out your other videos!!

[abdelkhaleqqady]

Just wanted to know from where or site you bought the caps assortment, having a lot of old radios needs caps, very amazing, thanks

[gotolunch]

excellent video. however the audio level is too low.

[gerryroberts]

I bought a used radio, some caps are bad in them, i want to restuff them or add fresh mineral oil to see if they would still work ??

[SuperFredAZ]

Wave trap looks like a series resonant circuit to 'short the offending frequency to ground.

[IDPhotoMan]

New subscriber! Can i ask what brand of orange Film capacitors those are, and if you still use them (since this video is 5 years old)? I see SO many sketchy brands...

[davem]

This man seems to know his stuff. I'd love to watch this video to the end, but his camera is so shaky, and the audio level is so low, it is sometimes inaudible. Too bad!!

[charliehustle]

i am new at this but could any body tell me what i could sub a .005 -
650 volt capacitor with ?? .047 be ok i do have .0022 650 volt would
that be ok ?? if any body would have a replacement chart for some of the
odd capacitor values . that would be a big help .

[samadams]

low audio starting at 10:37 to 12:34 have not checked the rest

[samadams]

Reforming capcitors is definitely NOT recommended by Mr. Carslon of Mr. Carlson's Lab

[taddmapes]

Hi I am replacing capacitors in a stewart warner mod 1271 it has a 12 mfd 1000v paper wax capacitor I have not been able to find a direct replacement what would you recomend ?

[sootydave]

Sorry but a little boring as you can not hear half of what you are saying. maybe later

[johnbravo]

That strap around that cap looks ridiculous

[bondjovi]

Just another fire hazard from another time.

We are now in the age of, "Lithium Ion." A modern fire hazard.

[ericklassen]

Why you don't use a tripod and proper volume control is a puzzle to me. Like, don't you check your work BEFORE you post you video?

[waynethompson]

Curious...do you not have an oscilloscope ? You method of checking for the Outside Foil end of the capacitor would not work for me...I couldn't hear anything at any time when you were doing that. For me, the simplest method would be to connect the capacitor to an oscilloscope and check the amplitude of the signal induced by your hand, then reverse the connection and see if it got larger or smaller.
Something I wanted to check with you....it sounded to me like you said it was fine to connect new replacement electrolytic capacitors to an existing defective can type capacitor. I must have misunderstood, because once the old electrolytic goes bad, it is in essence a resistor. Putting a new capacitor across that will simply put you back where you were with the bad one. I must have missed something you said.

[martymcgill]

Tripod??? I really tried watching but it makes ne dizzy