{"id":5042,"date":"2023-02-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/mr-carlson-replaces-old-capacitors-bathtub-capacitors\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:26","slug":"mr-carlson-replaces-old-capacitors-bathtub-capacitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/mr-carlson-replaces-old-capacitors-bathtub-capacitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Carlson Replaces Old Capacitors &#8212; Bathtub Capacitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0drh4V-cL4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I recently posted <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/to-re-cap-or-not-to-re-cap-curious-marc.html\">a video from CuriousMarc<\/a> about whether or not to replace electrolytic capacitors in old pieces of gear. This is a hot topic in restoration circles. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This week Mr. Carlson put out a video (above) in which he got rid of a bunch of &#8220;bathtub&#8221; capacitors in an old receiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>One of the many interesting things in Mr. Carlson&#8217;s video was how his test gear initially showed the old capacitors to be good, but on further examination with better test gear he found them to be BAD! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Out with old, in with the new! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently posted a video from CuriousMarc about whether or not to replace electrolytic capacitors in old pieces of gear. This is a hot topic in restoration circles. This week Mr. Carlson put out a video (above) in which he got rid of a bunch of &#8220;bathtub&#8221; capacitors in an old receiver. One of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/mr-carlson-replaces-old-capacitors-bathtub-capacitors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Carlson Replaces Old Capacitors &#8212; Bathtub Capacitors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,100,98,25,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlson-mr","category-old-radio","category-repair","category-troubleshooting","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11319,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/11319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}