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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
That's fantastic. 8 watts is plenty. Nice work.
A question, slightly off topic.
Did you have soldering chops before you started?
The reason I ask, I have a Yamaha CA800 solid state amp and a companion CT810 tuner from the '70's that need to be recapped. There's a fella in NYC who will sell all the caps necessary for a DIY, and I'm tempted to try.
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Not hard to do. May I recommend using the woven copper desoldering tapes (fluxed or non-fluxed but I found the fluxed version didn't work much better) and some flux in a syringe to assist in removing the old solder. Solder used on a 70's rig will most likely NOT be lead-free, which, IMHO, is a whole lot easier to reflow than today's lead free products.